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    <title>‘JAI HO’! Of Course, but whose? SONIA, MAN-MOHAN, PP or JANATA KE?</title>
    <published>2009-03-23T13:16:07Z</published>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/jai-ho-election-campaign-song.jpg?w=400&amp;amp;h=295" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Cartoon courtesy:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://missplayers.blogspot.com/2009/03/jai-ho-becomes-political-campaign-song.html" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;Missplayers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The Election Commission has not only exceeded its brief but has made a fool of self by asking BJP not to field&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/devil%E2%80%99s-advocate-varun-gandhi%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98allegedly-communal%E2%80%99-speech-secular-wailing-and-bjp%E2%80%99s-confusion/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;Varun Gandhi.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;It is sad if not outright stupid. Former Election Commissioner&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/EC-action-against-Varun-Gandhi-in-haste/articleshow/4300056.cms" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;GVG Krishnamurthy explains&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;why.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The Election Commission has no jurisdiction to take action against Gandhi&amp;rdquo; for his alleged inflammatory speeches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The model code of conduct comes into effect only after President Pratibha Patil notifies the elections in the official gazette. Till then Gandhi cannot be considered an Election Commission recognized candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The commission has acted in haste in moving against Gandhi for violation of the model code of conduct under the provisions of the Representation of Peoples Act 1951.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Only the police can move against him under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for inciting communal passions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;As of now Varun is only a probable candidate and an ordinary citizen against whom action can be taken only under the IPC if he makes inflammatory statements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The Election Commission has no role to play till the notification of elections by the president.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Wonder of Wonders&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&amp;amp;id=6818368d-7cf8-4a0d-b322-bacced7b1d51&amp;amp;Headline=Varun+has+right+to+defend+himself" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;This time&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;I found this&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/chamcha-in-chiefpankaj-vohara/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Chamcha in Chief&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in agreement with me though he is still defending &amp;lsquo;Dynastic Scion&amp;rsquo; albeit on the other side of political divide. Good going&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/chamcha-in-chiefpankaj-vohara/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;CIC&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; " /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;You know well how to keep the both sides of bread buttered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;really actual&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;fun will began &amp;hellip; of course at our cost&amp;hellip;when&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/navin-chawala-or-democracy-choose-one/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;Shri Shri Naveen Chawala&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;will take over as the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;CHIEF&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Election Commissioner on April 21st- right in the middle of this election 2009- courtesy the Sonia &amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo; Gandhi&amp;rsquo;s handpicked Prime Minion and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/she-is-not-my-president/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;Your President&lt;/a&gt;. But then&amp;hellip; for some, &amp;lsquo;Dynasty is always superior to Democracy&amp;rsquo; despite this sane advice&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/%E2%80%98take-dynasty-out-of-democracy%E2%80%99-sudheendra-kulkarni/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;If we fail democracy, democracy will fail us.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;JAI HO!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/164563/BCCI-to-stage-IPL-abroad-over-security-issues.html" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;BCCI to stage IPL abroad over security issues.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;JAI HO!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;We a BILLION strong nation comes to standstill because we are a &amp;lsquo;Democracy&amp;rsquo;!!??&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;JAI HO?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;With Sonia &amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo; Gandhi as&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Supreme most&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;we can not hold a &amp;lsquo;domestic tournament&amp;rsquo; even in our Billion strong nation!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;JAI HO!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;With&lt;a href="http://www.desiprimeminister.com/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lsquo;Economist&amp;rsquo; Prime Minion &amp;lsquo;alleged&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to be at the helm of affairs of BILLION strong nation - hardly seen or reported or recognized as - even by the &amp;lsquo;babas and babes&amp;rsquo; of Congress; leave alone &amp;lsquo;AAM ADAMI&amp;rsquo;!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;JAI HO!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Last but not least three cheers for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/she-is-not-my-president/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Your President&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;too&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;JAI HO! JAI HO!! JAI HO!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;My dear friend&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://mallikan.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;Mallika&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;has posted this video asking who&amp;rsquo;s &amp;lsquo;Jai Ho&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Congress Ki Ya Janata Ki?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a title="Jai Ho!" href="http://vodpod.com/watch/1441847-jai-ho?pod=theprudent" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;See this video here and send to as many as you can. Congress might have BOUGHT the copyright and deservedly so. I choose to say &amp;lsquo;Jai Ho&amp;rsquo;&amp;hellip;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; " /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="10" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://mallikan.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Mallika&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;, JANATA KI HI JAI HOTI HAI OR HOTI RAHEGI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;IS LIYE &amp;lsquo;JAI HO&amp;rsquo; JANATA KI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:14478</id>
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    <title>Devil’s Advocate: Varun Gandhi’s ‘Allegedly Communal’ Speech, Secular Wailing and BJP’s Confusion.</title>
    <published>2009-03-23T13:11:06Z</published>
    <updated>2009-03-23T13:12:16Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/varun-gandhi2.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=500" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Varun Gandhi on March 4th&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;while attending a&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;workers meet&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;in Pillibhit is&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;alleged&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;to have made a speech which has in turn made the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Sec &amp;ndash;Soc MSM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;go into a frenzy and their&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Secular Wailing&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rsquo; has become unbearably nauseating.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;On Varun&amp;rsquo;s speech,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.sandeepweb.com/2009/03/19/what-did-varun-gandhi-say/"&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Sandeep here has made an excellent post and I agree with him somewhat.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Here is my take on this issue.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;To start with, Varun&amp;rsquo;s &amp;lsquo;alleged&amp;rsquo; speech CD first.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1em; list-style-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/bullet.png); "&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Is it proven beyond doubt that this is what exactly he said?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Is it proven beyond doubt that this CD was not doctored? After all MSM does not cover itself in glory when the matter relates to fake stings and dubious CDs, doing rounds of News Broadcasters, whenever elections are around.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Why has the CD been not telecast earlier on 4&lt;sup style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;th&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;of March when this &amp;lsquo;allegedly communal&amp;rsquo; speech was made? Why was the matter delayed till 16&lt;sup style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;th&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;March?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Who all were holding this CD for 12 whole days and why?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;MOST IMPORTANT: Who has recorded this speech? On watching this video it is very clear that it was not recorded by a professional cameraman but by someone else. Where is that camera on which this video was recorded?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;These are a few pertinent points that need to be considered before Varun is pronounced guilty of &amp;lsquo;hate speech&amp;rsquo; and/or &amp;lsquo;inflaming communal passion&amp;rsquo; and whatever adjectives MSM is using against Varun Gandhi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Furthermore, our country has a constitution with well laid down laws and procedures that need to be followed before pronouncing anyone guilty. So why is there such a great hurry to damn Varun even before his guilt is established?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Well, the reasons are not difficult to comprehend when we look at the famous players behind this &amp;lsquo;Secular Wailing&amp;rsquo;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Here is one&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Barkha Didi" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/barkha-dutt-%E2%80%98freedom-of-speech%E2%80%99-huh/"&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Padma Shri Madame&amp;rsquo;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;strongly secular 24X7 news channel chosen to telecast the CD after a gap of 12 whole days!!!! Since March 16&lt;sup style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;th&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;the Padma Shri&amp;rsquo;s channel has been engaging the fast dwindling audiences with their secular rant and has already pronounced Varun guilty and just short of hanging him; has recommended all sorts of punishment that range from debarring him from the electoral race to sending him to jail for three years maximum!!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Another&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Padam Shri Rajdeep Sardesai" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/rajdeep-sardesai-cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape-scandal-%E2%80%98hamam-mein-sab-nange-hain%E2%80%99-of-course/"&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Padma Shri&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;of &amp;lsquo;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;C&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;ongress&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;N&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;ews&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;N&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;etwork&amp;rsquo; has the gall to say,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Rajdeep on Varun" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&amp;amp;id=c08e81d7-a7d6-4a0e-8e16-935ca15e1859MyIndiamyvote2009_Special&amp;amp;Headline=The+other+great-grandson"&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;&amp;hellip;we must not allow Varun to get away so easily.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;AUDACIOUS!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Pray May I ask him what should be done with you Sir for the role you played in rescuing the Baliddaan Moorti&amp;rsquo;s handpicked Prime Minion by &amp;lsquo;hiding the tapes&amp;rsquo;! HUH!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Cash-for-Votes-and-Hide-the-Tape Scandal. ‘Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain’, of course!" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/2008/07/31/rajdeep-sardesai-cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape-scandal-%e2%80%98hamam-mein-sab-nange-hain%e2%80%99-of-course/"&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain&amp;rsquo;, of course!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Hiding the tapes then and showing it NOW repeatedly!&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;WOW!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Look who is talking!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I am not sure about what Varun is supposed to have said, but if at all he has said what he is &amp;lsquo;alleged&amp;rsquo; to have said, then I think that this is what most Hindus have been feeling since&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Balidaan Moorti Ma" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/madame-sonia-gandhi-the-true-balidaan-devi/"&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Her Majesty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;inflicted her handpicked&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Andher Nagari Chupat Raja" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/singh-is-king-andheri-nagari-chaupat-raja/"&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Prime Minion&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;on us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Muslim first policy and unabashed &amp;lsquo;minority (read Muslims) appeasement&amp;rsquo; in the name of Secularism has done no service to either the Muslims or the Hindus but has only helped to widen the gulf. (It is foolish to think that this &amp;lsquo;gulf&amp;rsquo; does not or did not exist by mouthing meaningless and hollow platitudes).&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;If it is at all true what Varun is alleged to have said, it is only the manifestation of this simmering anger among the Hindus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Now BJP&amp;rsquo;s confusion.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;BJP&amp;rsquo;s confusion is&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;pathetic&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;to say the least. Flip Flop! I, for one, hold this opinion that&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;BJP lost 2004 not because of being seen as a Hindu party but for not being a Hindu Enough party&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;which&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;could be very simplistic but true nevertheless. I wish the BJP had learned some lessons from the past and not tried to be so&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;enthusiastically &amp;lsquo;secular&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:14289</id>
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    <title>Pakistan showers just ‘few’ bullets on Sri Lankan Cricket Team.</title>
    <published>2009-03-04T14:28:53Z</published>
    <updated>2009-03-04T14:28:53Z</updated>
    <category term="my take"/>
    <category term="islamic terrorism"/>
    <category term="prudent indian"/>
    <category term="islam"/>
    <category term="secularism"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;lj-embed id="9" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;I m reminded of Pakistan&amp;rsquo;s ghazal maestro &lt;em&gt;Ghulam Ali&amp;rsquo;s &lt;/em&gt;famous ghazal &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;Hungama Hai Kyoon Barpa; Thodi si jo Pe Lee hai.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chori Tou Nahin Ki; Daka Tou Nahin Dala.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I wonder what the &lt;strong&gt;&amp;lsquo;Holy Land of Islam&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt; is humming after yesterday&amp;rsquo;s great display of hospitality! Perhaps this&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;Hungama Hain Kyoon Barpa; Goli Bhi Tou Marri Hai.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rocket jo nahin Lagga; Grenade bhi &amp;nbsp;nahin fata&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Going by the past record of &lt;a title="Oh Killer Cricket" href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/killer-cricket/" target="_blank"&gt;Pakistani&amp;rsquo;s love for Cricket&lt;/a&gt; we must thank God for small mercy that all Sri Lankan players are safe and back home.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Safe?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Yes, after all they survived the flavor of &lt;strong&gt;Pakistani Hospitalit&lt;/strong&gt;y but just with all those small little friendly bullet wounds in chest, arm,foot, leg, shoulder, thigh etc.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JUST THAT! COME ON! JUST SOME PUNCTURE HOLES! MAY BE YOU ALL GET BACK TO ACTION SOON OR WHAT IF YOU DO NOT? AFTER ALL &amp;lsquo;BRAVADO&amp;rsquo; SHOWN IS &amp;lsquo;HEIGHT OF STUPIDITY&amp;rsquo; BUT ONLY YOU COULD OR &lt;a title="Money , Money  My Dear" href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/ohcricket/" target="_blank"&gt;YOUR BOARD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt; HAD UNDERSTOOD.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Though I am glad none of you (Sri Lankans) &amp;nbsp;is critically injured and expect and wish to see u back in action (on play field) soon, yet I doubt your Prudence. After all your not so &lt;em&gt;friendly Neighbor&lt;/em&gt; had nearly arranged an appointment of yours with &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;their &amp;lsquo;God Almighty&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I am reminded of Goswami Tulsi Dass Ji, he said and I quote ( from Sunder Kaand).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;Vinay Karat Jaldhi, Teene din Gaye Beet,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bole Ram Sakop Tab, Bhay Binu Hoi Na Preet&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a title="Pakistan team escapes attack by five minutes" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jRBD-KD0_2aC6N2LDzVO6CWYw94A" target="_blank"&gt;By the way Pakistani team survived because &lt;em&gt;&amp;lsquo;God Alimighty&amp;rsquo; &lt;/em&gt;was by their side you know.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Parting Shot&lt;/strong&gt;: Will the candle marcher peacenicks at Wagah would learn a lesson now? NOPE they wont.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;Expect them to preach to you how &amp;ldquo;Cricket&amp;rdquo; would bring you closer to your &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;God &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;rdquo;friendly neightbor&amp;rdquo;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;High time we ask these &amp;lsquo;peacenicks&amp;rsquo; &amp;nbsp;to shift their shops to &amp;lsquo;Lahore&amp;rsquo; for once and all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:13796</id>
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    <title>Renuka Chowdhury: Minister for ‘Pink Chaddis’ or ‘Woman and Child development’ ?</title>
    <published>2009-02-26T05:25:35Z</published>
    <updated>2009-03-04T04:29:34Z</updated>
    <category term="sonia gandhi"/>
    <category term="narrendra modi"/>
    <category term="prudent indian"/>
    <category term="upa:un provoked assassins"/>
    <category term="my take"/>
    <category term="upa"/>
    <category term="women"/>
    <category term="manmohan singh"/>
    <category term="reading between the lines"/>
    <category term="renuka choudhury"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/complaint-against-renuka.jpg?w=499&amp;amp;h=582" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Union Minister for&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Women and Child Development&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Renuka Chowdhury&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;is the fire spewing&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Young&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;leader of Congress and most visible and vocal champion of Woman rights. You can spot her almost on daily basis on any of 24X7 channels espousing the cause of Womanhood.&amp;nbsp;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Her passionate defense of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://thepinkchaddicampaign.blogspot.com/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Pink Chaddi Woman Folk&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and her zeal to see that more and more woman too become&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Pub Going Loose and Forward&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;(ex&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;cuse&lt;/em&gt;me ladies,&amp;nbsp;whatever you call selves as)&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;was too fantastic.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;If Gandhi Ji had given a call of &amp;lsquo;Jail Bharo&amp;rsquo; then, her call of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/feb/060209-pub-bharo-renuka-choudhury-sri-ram-sene-valentine-day-bangalore.htm"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Pub Bharo&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;was too ingenious. She has secured self a place in history. I was amazed to see her tarring the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;whole of Manglore natives&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;by saying&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Talibanisation is happening in Karnataka: Renuka" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Talibanisation-is-happening-in-Karnataka-Renuka/420503/"&gt;&amp;ldquo;&amp;rsquo;Mangalore has been Talibanised.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;It is different matter that&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Manglorians&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;were not amused by her&amp;rsquo;s &amp;nbsp;this senseless statement and the Mayor and otther prominient citizens filed a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Criminal case filed against Renuka Chowdhury " target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=15711238"&gt;complaint&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;prompting the&lt;a title="Register FIR against Renuka: Mangalore court" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/19/stories/2009021960891200.htm"&gt;Court to ask authorities to register a FIR against the union minister.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Renuka has a proclivity for attracting publicity even at the expense of public and this is well known. She may well choose to support&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Pink Chaddis&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;or strive to see that more and more woman include&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PUB visit&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;as a weekly schedule if not daily just as woman folk make a visit to Beauty parlor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;But for that to happen&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Renuka&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;as a minister will have to first ensure that no woman is forced to sell her Child to pay up Medical Bill (?) that too in Govt run Hospital. SHAME!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;SHAME INDEED!&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;This happens in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Honorable Ministers&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;own constituency.&lt;/strong&gt;This following report is a slap on the face of Renuka Choudhury the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Honorable Union Minister&amp;rsquo; for Women and Child Development.&amp;nbsp;HUH!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Indian Express" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Mom-sells-baby-to-pay-bribe-in-Renukas-constituency/427557/"&gt;Mom sells baby to pay &amp;lsquo;bribe&amp;rsquo; in Renuka&amp;rsquo;s constituency&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Hyderabad:&amp;nbsp;In a heart-rending incident, a young poverty-stricken single mother in Andhra Pradesh sold her newborn son to a childless couple for Rs 6,000 so that she could pay her medical bill in a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.indianexpress.com/special/government,%20india/"&gt;Government&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;hospital.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;My financial position is really bad,&amp;rdquo; a distraught looking Rajitha (20) who could not afford the Rs 2,000 hospital fee said from her bed at the Government area hospital in Kothagudem in Khammam district.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;She delivered the baby by Caesarean section last week and the infant changed hands within 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Police said they would take action against the hospital which also faces an inquiry whether its doctors took any money as bribe from the woman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;Buying and selling a baby is an offence, so we will be booking cases,&amp;rdquo; Kothagudem revenue division officer P Rajaram said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;According to reports, a rickshaw driver friend gave the single mother Rs 6,000 for the baby, which he planned to bring up with his wife. The couple have no children.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The incident occurred in the parliamentary constituency of Union Minister of State for Women and Child development Renuka Chowdhury.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;At least, she is safe and at least the child is not dead and not killed. I think they are the most important things that we need to look at,&amp;rdquo; Chowdhury said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The woman told the police who interrogated her that her husband had abandoned her and she had no means to support herself and a baby.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are also inquiring into the fact whether the doctor had asked for money (from the woman),&amp;rdquo; he added.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Welfare officials reportedly want the baby to be reunited with his mother so she can breastfeed him. They said the mother and child would then be shifted to a state-run facility where Rajitha can decide if she wants to put the baby up for adoption.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;I want to question Renuka Choudhury:&amp;nbsp;Is this poor woman has no right to be defended by you? Or is it because she is not &amp;lsquo;Loose and forward Enough&amp;rsquo; to merit your attention?&amp;nbsp;Any Answer?&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="7" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Meantime, she got to sew her mouth and control often displayed &amp;lsquo;histrionics&amp;rsquo; whenever she sees TV cameras.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:13477</id>
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    <title>Modi and Rahul: Piranah and Aquarium fish.</title>
    <published>2009-02-24T04:00:19Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-24T06:26:57Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/modifish.jpg?w=285&amp;amp;h=332" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sonia &amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo; Gandhi&amp;rsquo;s Congress party has no of legal luminaries (Lawyers) of all hues and sizes. Starting from the Law minister H R Bhardwaj to Kapil Sibal to Manu Singhvi to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21);" target="_blank" href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/devils-advocate-or-devil-advocates/"&gt;Now disowned Devil Advocate R K Anand&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to now day&amp;rsquo;s most visible advocate of the Congress &amp;nbsp; &amp;lsquo;Dynasty&amp;rsquo; &amp;nbsp;Manish Tiwari.&amp;nbsp;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;One job all these great &amp;lsquo;Advocates &amp;lsquo; relish doing is:&lt;em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Being spokesman for the Dynasty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Louder the better. Facts, Truth, Probity and now even very basic and common knowledge too is discounted when the matters come to defending the &amp;lsquo;Goddess of Sacrifice&amp;rsquo; and her&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;ndash;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;not so young anymore&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;ndash;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;38&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;year old&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;Clown&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Crowned Prince Rahul.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Congress&amp;rsquo;s spokesperson Manish Tiwari is a lawyer by profession and nowadays chief&amp;nbsp;&lt;a style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21);" target="_blank" href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/proctor"&gt;proctor&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;of Rahul&amp;rsquo;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;lsquo;foot in mouth&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;disease. His (Manish Tiwari) oratory is in no doubt neither his lung power can be underestimated; but what about some&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;General Knowledge&lt;/strong&gt;?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Ummmm&amp;hellip; I think he should spend some time reading his kid&amp;rsquo;s books or some easy goggle search too would be of immense help before he shoots his mouth next time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Manish in his zeal to match&amp;nbsp;&lt;a style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21);" target="_blank" title="We weather ocean storms: Modi; he is a piranha: Cong" href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/158398/%E2%80%98Congmen-are-aquarium-fish%E2%80%99.html"&gt;Modis &amp;lsquo;veiled&amp;rsquo; reference to Rahu&lt;/a&gt;l as&amp;nbsp;&lt;a style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21);" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarium"&gt;&amp;lsquo;aquarium fish&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;said,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="margin: 1em; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 0% 0%;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;If Rahul is like a fish in the aquarium, then Modi is &amp;lsquo;piranha&amp;rsquo; who devoured human beings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;HT dated Feb, 23rd 2009.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;On this my good friend&amp;nbsp;&lt;a style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21);" target="_blank" href="http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2009/02/22/manish-tiwari-accentuates-rahul-gandhis-ignorance/"&gt;Yossarin say&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="margin: 1em; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 0% 0%;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Manish Tiwari&amp;rsquo;s smart-ass retort would have carried its zing but for a simple problem &amp;ndash; the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;piranha are fresh water fish&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;and not ocean fish. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Before the Dynasty spokesperson deny saying this, watch his histrionics here. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="6" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Now did Modi say any thing &amp;nbsp;wrong? No.&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Though&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;NaMo&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;(Narrendera Modi) &amp;nbsp;did not name &amp;lsquo;Rahul&amp;rsquo; specifically he pointed out to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;deep rooted&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Dynastic culture in Congress and contrasted this with the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;BJP&amp;rsquo;s gen next leadership.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Congress&amp;rsquo;s claims of youth leadership Rahul, Pilot, Prasad, Scindhia, Naveen Jindal, Priya Dutt all are in Congress not for being their on their own merit but only being&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;sons and daughters&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;of&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;past/present&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Loyal Dynasty Servers&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;of Congress.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Contrast this with&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Arun Jaitley,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Ravi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Shankar, Sushama Swaraj, Narrendra Modi, Shiv Raj Chouhan, Mukhtaar abbass Naqui, Shahnawaj Hussein&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;and many many more who are where they are due to their girth and determination and service to the nation. Same hold true for the Communists too. Be it&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Sitaram Yechury or Prakash Karat&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;or any other leader in&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;PB&lt;/strong&gt;!&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;They all are&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;there due to their own efforts and work not because they were/are sons and daughters of some past/present party bigwigs.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Point me one name who has reached where ever he/she is because his/her father, mother, uncle, aunty propelled them forward.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sonia&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gandhi&amp;rsquo;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;lsquo;Congress&amp;rsquo; is no different from Laloo, Mulayam, Paswan, Maya, AIADMK, DMK, TDP&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;etc.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Theirs are small kiosks in a great&amp;nbsp;&lt;a style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21);" target="_blank" title="ManMohan Singh/ Amar Singh Government Wins/ Manages the “TRUST” of India." href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/manmohan-singh-amar-singh-government-wins-manages-the-trust-of-india/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;trade fare called Lok Sabha&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;while Sonia head a Pvt. Ltd. Company with no stake of &amp;nbsp;&amp;lsquo;aam adami&amp;rsquo; in it at all.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;After all Sonia&amp;rsquo;s&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;cheerleaders like these&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;lsquo;lawyers&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;should know how the Sonia&amp;rsquo;s Congress treated&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;PV Narismhan Rao&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;(only another non family Congress PM other than being LB Shastri and undisputedly among the best) or&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Sita Ram Kesari&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;(who was &amp;lsquo;physically removed from office when Sonia decided to join politics)&lt;/em&gt;as President of Congress.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Therefore Dynasty&amp;rsquo;s spokesperson&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;lsquo;indignant outburst&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;is ill placed and devoid of some basic knowledge too. Madame and&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;Clown&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Crowned Prince deserve better&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;lsquo;dynasty servers&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;now on As they will be constantly engaged and challenged by bloggers often, after all the great&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Indian Tamasha &amp;lsquo;Elections&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rsquo; are approaching fast and we&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;(Bloggers)&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;too have a stake in that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Parting Shot&amp;hellip;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;BTW at 38 Rahul is not young any more how about projecting Priyanka&amp;rsquo;s kids as next Gen leadership if age is what is so important for Congress! Wonder I and/or billion strong nation noticed no &amp;lsquo;greatness&amp;rsquo; in action or deed of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;Clown&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Crowned Prince so far&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>“Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain”</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T05:14:27Z</published>
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    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;If you happen to be&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Editor, Managing Editor, Editor in Chief&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;or an&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Executive Editor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Sec-Soc Main Stream Media&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;and dream for becoming some Padam Shri or Padam Bhushan then; all that you need to do is: Sing&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/madame-sonia-gandhi-the-true-balidaan-devi/"&gt;Pagans in praise of Madame&lt;/a&gt;, project&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/please-know-your-future-kingmanmohan/"&gt;Rahul as the future&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and more importantly do all you can to down size Advani. Do that by all means who stops you after all one Padam Shri Editor in Chief say and say openly,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/rajdeep-sardesai-cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape-scandal-%E2%80%98hamam-mein-sab-nange-hain%E2%80%99-of-course/"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Hamam Mein Sab Nange Hain&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;. Who doubts any more?&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;All these mighty people have their own perspective of issues depending upon their&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;political and/or economic&amp;rsquo; intersests&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Well, I hold nothing against them for their&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;being&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;what they are, but&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;WTF&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;if they delebirately become so oblivious of some very &amp;nbsp;basic and &amp;nbsp;simple facts and in their zeal to be more loyal to&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Queen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;lie through teeth!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;It is one thing to project the one who hold license to rule but bloody too much to do what this one&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/677/639"&gt;Pranjal Sharma of UTVi does here.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Screw up history, contort Geography and project self as a front runner for some Padam Shri or Bhushan is too much to digest????&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&amp;amp;id=68a7bdc4-71cc-41c5-af28-530d15195322&amp;amp;MatchID1=4923&amp;amp;TeamID1=4&amp;amp;TeamID2=2&amp;amp;MatchType1=1&amp;amp;SeriesID1=1244&amp;amp;PrimaryID=4923&amp;amp;Headline=Time+for+a+makeover"&gt;Shamelessly This Executive Editor of UTVi does exactly the same and say &amp;lsquo;this&amp;rsquo; about Shri L.K.Advani,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: yellow; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; "&gt;A Prime Minister&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;born in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: yellow; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; "&gt;Karachi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: yellow; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;may not go down well post-26/11.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Well! Is this&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Executive Editor&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/677/639"&gt;Pranjal Sharma&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;really ignorant of history? Is he really ignorant of geography before 1947 or after? None. He is simply being too smart by half by exploiting the popular sentiment of General Public against the perpetrators of&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/MAYHEM%20IN%20MUMBAI"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/mayhem-in-mumbai/"&gt;Mumbai Mayhem&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;coming&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Karachi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;These days&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/barkha-dutt-%E2%80%98freedom-of-speech%E2%80%99-huh/"&gt;challenging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/barkha-dutt-%E2%80%98freedom-of-speech%E2%80%99-huh/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;these high and mighty&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;ones are a risky thing. After all not long back the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/barkha-dutt-ko-gussa-kyon-aata-hai/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Queen&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/barkha-dutt-ko-gussa-kyon-aata-hai/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;of Indian News sued a poor blogger and&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.sandeepweb.com/2008/08/15/revenge-of-the-turd/"&gt;Raja of Indian News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;demonstrated&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;how&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Media Mein Sab Nange Hain&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;For the benefit of this Executive Editor of UTVi, here are two maps pre and post partition of India and that too when Nehru and Gandhi were at the helms of affairs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/_44059547_map_1947-2007_629.gif?w=500&amp;amp;h=238" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Just one question for this&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/677/639"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Executive Editor&amp;rsquo; Pranjal Sharma of UTVi&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;hellip;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, serif; font-size: 1.1em; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;as &amp;lsquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Karachi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;rsquo; a part of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;or not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); "&gt;in 1929? If yes, then&amp;nbsp;WTF is this&amp;nbsp;above sentence for if not outrageoulsy outrageous?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;But only if not Pranjal Sharma&amp;rsquo;s intention is to obfuscate facts and promote self at the cost of Geography then what else is it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Shameless! Utterly Shameless.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/navin-chawala-or-democracy-choose-one/"&gt;Another example how the Congress fixed Institutions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Executive Editor&amp;rsquo; Pranjal Sharma get your facts right and/or&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;SHUT UP.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>‘Take Dynasty out of Democracy’ : Sudheendra Kulkarni</title>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img align="middle" alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/dsc_7067.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=332" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "&gt;This is to put on record that your truly has always been inspired by Shri Kulkarni. I seek his guidance, always.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Shri&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/sudheendrakulkarni/" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Sudheendra Kulkarni&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is one among the most respected columnist and surely a &amp;lsquo;Sane Voice&amp;rsquo; among the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Cacophonic and Sycophantic&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Main stream media. Here in this well argued post&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/taking-dynasty-out-of-democracy/420603/" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Taking dynasty out of democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Shri Kulkarni has emphatically certified what you&amp;rsquo;re truly had argued in this post&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.65pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Choose One." href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/navin-chawala-or-democracy-choose-one/" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(38, 94, 21); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Navin Chawala or Democracy: Choose&amp;nbsp;One.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;In this post &amp;lsquo;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.65pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Choose One." href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/navin-chawala-or-democracy-choose-one/" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(38, 94, 21); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Navin Chawala or Democracy: Choose&amp;nbsp;One.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rsquo; You&amp;rsquo;re truly had sought to draw attention of readers to three broad point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Well as I said earlier too and reiterate that democracy is not about voting alone or/and getting elected.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;No Way&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;. Democracy is about: Protecting Rights, Supporting and strengthening Institutions, Affording/Providing Equal opportunities to all and any, last but not least - not only been honest and transparent but to be seen so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Original Ms. Gandhi in cohorts with Communists started weakening &amp;lsquo;Institutions&amp;rsquo; which has &amp;lsquo;Now&amp;rsquo; been perfected by the Imported Ms. Gandhi- Sonia &amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo; Gandhi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Abusing Democracy and undermining institutions runs deep in this family. Question is: Do we need democracy or we are doomed with a family&amp;rsquo;s whims and fancy?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Shri Kulkarni besides certifying these points has some many more interesting points to add.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;On Rahul Gandhi being projected as future Prime Minister, Mr. S. Kulkarni says&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Now the&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/special/congress,%20politics/" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;Congress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;has projected Rahul Gandhi as its future leader and prime ministerial candidate. &amp;lsquo;Ateet ke neenv par/Bhavishya ka nirmaan&amp;rsquo; (Building a future on the foundation of the past) say Congress posters showcasing Rahul.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: yellow; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; "&gt;The very first principle of democracy? equal opportunity undiluted by birth-related privileges? has been violated by this blatant hardsell of dynasty. The assumption that a member of the Nehru family need not have governmental experience or any record of service to the nation to be projected as the future prime minister of India is an insult to the logic of democracy&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;On devaluation of Democratic Institutions under congress rule&amp;hellip;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Yes, we can be justifiably proud of our democracy. But if take a closer look, we will be able to see the infirmities and deformities within our system. Some of our present rulers have done everything to devalue institutions of parliamentary democracy. Some of the salient issues associated with the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: yellow; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; "&gt;Rashtrapati&amp;rsquo;s election in July 2007&lt;/span&gt;still remain unresolved. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: yellow; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; "&gt;Election Commission&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;has become the centre of an unprecedented controversy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: yellow; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; "&gt;And we have a prime minister who is not even directly elected by the people&lt;/span&gt;. He prefers to play&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: yellow; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; "&gt;second fiddle to an extra-constitutional authority&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;that has nominated him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kulkarni Sir urges us&amp;hellip;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;If we want to make&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;rsquo;s democracy failure-proof, let us raise our voice against what we think is wrong, even at the risk of suffering hardships. Let us campaign for a leadership culture that promotes merit and does not privilege birth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Let us demand far-reaching electoral reforms, including state funding of elections, whereby money power cannot steal or subvert people&amp;rsquo;s mandate. Let us force greater accountability upon our political leaders. And let us be vigilant in safeguarding the sanctity of our democratic institutions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;He warns us too in no uncertain terms&amp;hellip;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;If we fail democracy, democracy will fail us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I join Sir Kulkarni in his appeal to save the democracy from dynasty and &amp;lsquo;Take Dynasty out of Democracy.&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:12653</id>
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    <title>Navin Chawala or Democracy: Choose One.</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T05:09:38Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T06:00:46Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/navin.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=352" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;I am not amused and in dilemma too - to laugh or cry. Well I do both. I laugh at the stupidity of Congress and their henchmen/women/babas and babes and; cry: as Institution after institutions is being made &amp;lsquo;subservient&amp;rsquo; to Madame Sonia and &amp;lsquo;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/please-know-your-future-kingmanmohan/"&gt;Future King&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rsquo; anointed. Ironically we still are called &amp;lsquo;democracy&amp;rsquo;! That too, Largest and Vibrant!&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Well as I said earlier too and reiterate that democracy is not about voting alone or/and getting elected. No Way. Democracy is about: Protecting Rights, Supporting and strengthening Institutions, Affording/Providing Equal opportunities to all and any, last but not least - not only been honest and transparent but to be seen so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Alas! It is not be. Original Ms. Gandhi in cohorts with Communists started weakening &amp;lsquo;Institutions&amp;rsquo; which has &amp;lsquo;Now&amp;rsquo; been perfected by the Imported Ms. Gandhi- Sonia &amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo; Gandhi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Congress men/woman/Babas and Babes have been merrily carrying forward the infamous slogan coined by Barua - the then Congress CM of Assam: &amp;lsquo;Indira is India; India is Indira&amp;rsquo;. This time it is Sonia &amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo; who has been hailed as&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/madame-sonia-gandhi-the-true-balidaan-devi/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Goddess of Sacrifice&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;, indeed; as I argued here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Indira imposed emergency and prosecuted opposition leaders by throwing them in Jails, Sanjay became the de facto PM with out even being a MLA of any state. Indira had even mulled to suspend the fundamental &amp;lsquo;right to life&amp;rsquo;. Those of us, who are on the sunny side of forties but in teens that time, remember those dreadful days vividly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Dynasty heir Rajiv&amp;rsquo;s tenure witnessed the most brutal&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Sikh Massacre 1984" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/so-what-did-the-doctor-say/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Massacre of Sikhs&amp;rsquo; in 1984&lt;/a&gt;. Perpetrators of that heinous blood bath had become Ministers in various successive Congress Governments; some were awarded with Governorships some&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Arjun Singh justifiy Sikh massacre 1984" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/all-sikhs-were-%E2%80%98murderers-of-indira-gandhi%E2%80%99-hence-1984-is-justified-implies-arjun-singh/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;tormentors of Emergency Era&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;are still in important posts. One of them is Navin Chawala.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Navin Chawala had been appointed by &amp;lsquo;Her Majesty&amp;rsquo;s Government&amp;rsquo; as Election Commissioner so Elections 2009 coincide with&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;being as CEC. Not that he as EC could not have served &amp;lsquo;His Masters&amp;rsquo;, he did. See this&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="new" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.rediff.com/news/2009/feb/02chawlas-loo-breaks-led-to-congress-phone-calls-cec.htm"&gt;Chawla&amp;rsquo;s loo breaks led to Congress phone calls: CEC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;But is it Election Commission alone that&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;has been made subservient to &amp;lsquo;Her Majesty&amp;rsquo;s Government&amp;rsquo;? NO.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Let me recount some to refresh your memory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;-To start with Sonia &amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo; carefully selected&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Singh Is King" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/singh-is-king-andheri-nagari-chaupat-raja/"&gt;Man Mohan Singh&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;after this drama only for his being &amp;lsquo;Quite harm Less&amp;rsquo; as a challenge to her authority. Pranab Mukherjee who happens to be much senior to MMS and hold most important positions was left in cold since Madame had doubts about his becoming a threat to her or the &amp;lsquo;Future King&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;-Let me recall to you all about that&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14849426&amp;amp;?vsv=TopHP1"&gt;Hans Raj Bhardwaj&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Law Minister) saw nothing wrong if Governmental files were sent to Sonia for vetting/decisions, her being the Chairperson of a Gang called UPA. Of course; he retracted when there was an out cry.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;-Election of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Not My President" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/she-is-not-my-president/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;You&amp;rsquo;re President&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;among Billion strong Nation is another example.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;-In cohort with&lt;a title="Cash for Votes" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/rajdeep-sardesai-cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape-scandal-%E2%80%98hamam-mein-sab-nange-hain%E2%80%99-of-course/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;MSM even Parliament was made a subject of Hor&lt;/a&gt;se Trading.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;-CBI was abused for a Mr. &amp;lsquo;Q&amp;rsquo;, made a tool of &amp;lsquo;negotiation&amp;rsquo; with/for Amar Singh and Co., Maya, Mulayam, Guru Ghantal Shibu Soren etc.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;-I hope many of you have not forgotten how the fair name of&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Dr. Kalam and office of Prseident&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;was dragged in to a controversy regarding dissolution of Bihar Assembly at the behest of a Laloo. That time our very Gentle PM had reassured Dr. Kalam- that too in middle of night and Dr. Kalam&amp;rsquo;s being in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Russia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Another time the office of President was sought to be sullied when Dr. Kalam had refused to sign the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/08/01/a-prudent-option-for-the-president/"&gt;controversial &amp;lsquo;Office of Profit Bill&amp;rsquo; to save the Madame Sonia &amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo; Gandhi.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;List is long and indicative of how one institution after Institution is being abused to favor a particular lady. Abusing Democracy and undermining institutions runs deep in this family. Question is: Do we need democracy or we are doomed with a family&amp;rsquo;s whims and fancy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;I choose democracy and so I want&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://barbarindians.blogspot.com/2009/02/ec-navin-chawla-allegedly-ran-gitmo.html"&gt;Navin Chawala&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to be removed from this Institution. If Sonia still manages to win election; I will welcome her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;So for a free and fair election wipe this blemish.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://blog.lkadvani.in/uncategorized/why-cec%E2%80%99s-recommendation-with-regard-to-navin-chawla-must-be-accepted-by-government"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Lal Krishan Advani has made a strong point for Navin Chawala&amp;rsquo;s &amp;nbsp;removal here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I urge all to &amp;lsquo;Say No to Navin Chawala&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;PI.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;pic courtsey&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.sandeepweb.com/2009/02/03/navin-chawla-say-no/"&gt;Sandeep.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Barkha Dutt &amp; ‘Freedom of Speech’. HUH!</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T05:04:23Z</published>
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    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Padam Shri Barkha Dutt Ji who is next on your hit list?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/barkha-dutt.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=283" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;One blogger&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Chyetanya Kunte wrote an angry post after being rightly pissed off watching the TV reportage during Mumbai Mayhem. He has not only been forced to retract his post (google cache is&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:swkK7xp9rLQJ:reader.feedshow.com/show_items-feed%3D82acf344ae184d2fd2a94dd3b34582b1+http://ckunte.com/+shoddy+journalism&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=9&amp;amp;gl=in"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(248, 128, 23); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;available here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) but publish unconditional&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://ckunte.com/archives/withdrawal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(170, 0, 1); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;apology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;too. Presumably after being threatened with legal action by&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Padam Shri Barkha Dutt&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;or&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;NDTV&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;or both. Well I am not surprised at all.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Barkha dutt ko Gussa Kyoon aata hai?" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/barkha-dutt-ko-gussa-kyon-aata-hai/"&gt;Ms. Barkha Dutt has always held bloggers with contempt and has always been angry at them.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;I join the bloggers fraternity and strongly condemn this highhandedness. Ms Dutt and NDTV forfeit any right to be sanctimonious about the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;freedom of Speech&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and all that blah blah. So next time we hear you Barkha- preaching us about &amp;lsquo;Liberal&amp;rsquo; values and all that, even my 10 year old daughter know what to do with the remote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Ms Barkha Dutt and her 24X7 News Channel has picked on a poor blogger to settle some scores but will Barkha Didi answer why Kunte alone? Ms Dutt,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="An Admiral and Barkha Dutt" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/an-admiral-and-the-barkha-dutt/"&gt;did the Admiral not say the same thing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Many in the media have managed to secure for selves one or another Padam Shri or Bhushan&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Why Rajdeep and Barkha must decline award" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/rajdeep-and-barkha-must-decline-the-padma-shri/"&gt;(despite this sane advice here)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and they feel that they are above any scrutiny, criticism, and appraisal. Smug in their belief they feel only they have the right to speech and speak what ever they want! MSM has monopolized over the public discourse and force their opinions on the gullible public.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Now, Ms Dutta and her colleagues in media have started a new trend of intimidating the dissenting voices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;So next time when we see the Padam Shri&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/rajdeep-sardesai-cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape-scandal-%E2%80%98hamam-mein-sab-nange-hain%E2%80%99-of-course/"&gt;Editor In Chief &amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;of a channel sit over sting operation tapes he himself commissioned and let the favorite party win a crucial parliamentary fight,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;we sit and watch him.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;So next time when a kid is brutally murdered; we watch the channels play endlessly porn reporting!&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;We take no offence to the way channels report!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Any time any news channel frames a School Teacher and telecast the physical assault on her, live!&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;We sit and watch!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Next time Ms Dutt or her esteemed collogues in MSM report the police action or preparedness for anti terrorist operation airing &amp;nbsp;live on air giving away the positions of security personnel thus jeopardizing their lives during any terror attack.&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;We sit and remain silent.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;We watch, read these champions of&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Free Speech&amp;rsquo; and &amp;lsquo;Liberal Values&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;preach us 24X7 and dare we not question them EVER. Lest we are slapped with legal notices and the might of these mighty Padam Shris and Bhushans are unleashed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;What a glorious way to celebrate the spirit of &amp;lsquo;Democracy&amp;rsquo;! Shame!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;So Barka Didi; am I to going to get a legal notice soon? Yes, in that case please do me a favor and type an apology your self on my behalf I will publish that but I wont retract this on any of earlier posts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;BTW here are some more interesting posts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/barkha-dutt-ko-gussa-kyon-aata-hai/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(38, 94, 21); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Barkha Dutt Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/an-admiral-and-the-barkha-dutt/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(38, 94, 21); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;An&amp;rsquo; Admiral and &amp;lsquo;The&amp;rsquo; Barkha Dutt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(59, 74, 37); line-height: 16px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Barkha Dutt and NDTV, the Joke is on You!" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.sandeepweb.com/2009/01/29/barkha-dutt-and-ndtv-the-joke-is-on-you/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;arkha Dutt and NDTV, the Joke is on You!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a title="This is Where Barkha Comes From" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.sandeepweb.com/2009/01/30/this-is-where-barkha-comes-from/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;This is Where Barkha Comes From&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://retributions.nationalinterest.in/ndtvs-assault-on-free-speech/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;NDTV&amp;rsquo;s Assault on Free Speech&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(the best)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.prempanicker.com/index.php?/site/when_free_speech_bears_a_price_tag/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;When &amp;lsquo;free speech&amp;rsquo; bears a price tag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://shripriya.com/blog/2009/01/28/shame-on-ndtv-and-barkha-dutt/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Shame on NDTV and Barkha Dutt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://elekhni.com/2009/01/a-bedtime-story-about-blog-freedom/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;A bedtime story about blog freedom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://thecomicproject.blogspot.com/2009/01/throw-constitution-away.html"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Throw the Constitution Away&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:12119</id>
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    <title>Ashoka Chakra 2009: 11 Brave Hearts.</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T04:56:31Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T06:09:51Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/ac.jpg?w=143&amp;amp;h=280" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/ac.jpg?w=143&amp;amp;h=280" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;This year 11 brave hearts have been awarded with Ashoka Chakra &amp;ndash; The highest Gallantry award in peace time.&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/26-01-09_ashok_chakra.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=716" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PI salutes these brave men for their exemplary courage and pays tributes for their self less sacrifice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;May God Bless their Souls.&amp;nbsp;Amen!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Without ever doubting the individual courage and contribution of these brave hearts, your sincerely has few observations to make.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;2009 has seen&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;an unprecedented 11 people for the country&amp;rsquo;s highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;All Posthumous awardees have laid their lives fighting Terror and SIX have been awarded for laying their lives during the Mumbai Mayhem.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;This is the maximum No of personnel awarded Ashoka Chakra in any single operation since 1950.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Since&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Independence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;, about 40 Ashok Chakras have been awarded for exemplary acts of bravery during peacetime. Its war time equivalent, Param Vir Chakra, was also awarded sparingly &amp;mdash;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;five for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kashmir&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;operations of 1947-48, four each for the 1971 war and 1999 Kargil conflict.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;These above observations raise few questions in my mind about the awards and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;politics of awards&lt;/em&gt;. For years; the Awards have been mired in one or another controversy, this year too it is no exception.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;This year the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;unprecedented high&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;no of Ashoka Chakra &amp;ndash;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Once again I reiterate that this is not to raise any doubt or cast any apprehension on the Bravery of these 11 Brave hearts&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash; might be indicative of few things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Is it an attempt to shroud the &amp;lsquo;Guilt Pangs&amp;rsquo; of the Man Mohan Singh&amp;rsquo;s government&amp;rsquo;s abject failure to contain terrorism?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Well, very much so. 2008 had been the worst year for India and Indians. Close to 60 Bomb Blasts &amp;ndash; avg. 5 a month, 1 &amp;frac14; a week &amp;ndash; hundreds of innocent men, women, children killed on streets, bazaars, roads, even Hospitals in city after city after city. A&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="What a danger Man!" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/now-delhi-rocks-with-serial-blasts-who-is-more-dangerous-afzal-guru-or-shiv-raj-patil/"&gt;shamelessly and dangerously inefficient &amp;lsquo;Walking Zombie&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;as Home Minister kept mumbling after every blast; all too impeccably dressed &amp;ndash; changing thrice even on the day the Capital of nation was bombed at four places! His head rolled only after&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Mumbai Mayhem" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/mayhem-in-mumbai/"&gt;Mumbai Massacre&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;was unleashed resulting in 190 lives lost.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Good Riddance" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/shiv-raj-%E2%80%98zombie%E2%80%99-patil-resigns-finally-good-riddance/"&gt;Only then &amp;lsquo;He&amp;rsquo; was thrown in the garbage of History&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;more to distract the public ire from the ruling party Congress (Both in centre and state) than to fix any responsibility. Having had so much of dismal record on the terror front and after the almost uprising and people&amp;rsquo;s anger against this Ruling Gang, they needed a face saver.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Were there &amp;nbsp;&amp;lsquo;really&amp;rsquo; no&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;political considerations&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;when this list was finally made?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;This is interesting though sad. Here I quote from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1224160"&gt;this report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;As reported by DNA (Jan 22), the initial list of nine was revised after controversy surrounding the names. The new list raises doubts on whether political expedience got the better of scientific analysis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a title="Karkare and Omble" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ashok-chakra-for-only-two-karkare-and-omble/413391/"&gt;This report here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/11_persons_to_get_Ashoka_Chakra_on_R-Day/articleshow/4018576.cms"&gt;this report too here&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;gives us the ample proof about the political caluclation and consideration behind finalising the list than genuine intention of honoring the brave hearts. Sic!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;It is evident that in the election year UPA government wanted to shroud the abysmal failure of its&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Love Thy Terrorist fixation&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;ndash; all in the name of&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Secularism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Sic!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;After all, two Senior Cabinet Ministers of Her Majesty&amp;rsquo;s Government&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/all-sikhs-were-%E2%80%98murderers-of-indira-gandhi%E2%80%99-hence-1984-is-justified-implies-arjun-singh/"&gt;Arjun&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/a-r-antulay-if-not-deshdrohi-than-what/"&gt;Antulay&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;have been persistent in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/07/14/arjunantulay-and-mumbai-blasts/"&gt;Secularizing the Terror&lt;/a&gt;! Sic! Has the Government purged these two elements from the Government? What does the Prime Minion think of these&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;two fossil minded dinosaurs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;? With what credibility the Govt confers the awards to those whom; two senior ministers&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;insult openly and publicly&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and still keep their seats intact in the Government!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;So friends, politicization of Martyrs started at the very highest level of this Government. Sonia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gandhi&amp;rsquo;s intention to &amp;lsquo;Honor Martyrs&amp;rsquo; is any thing but noble. Shame indeed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Now, you can understand my anguish. I know from core of my heart that these brave men deserve all the kudos and respect and honor from each individual Indian. Yet the way this Government has mired this &amp;lsquo;Greatest Civil Honor&amp;rsquo; for petty political gains and after shrewd calculations, is shameful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;As for the other awards,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://barbarindians.blogspot.com/"&gt;Barabar Indian&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;has an&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="award season" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://barbarindians.blogspot.com/2009/01/award-season.html"&gt;interesting take&lt;/a&gt;. I am amazed that Mrs. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan gets a Padma for her acting prowesses if not for being&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="FIVE PADMA in Bachchan family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://bigb.bigadda.com/2009/01/25/day-276i/"&gt;DIL alone of Bade Bhaiye Ji&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;or because of this&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Amar Singh Amar raho" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/amar-singh-%E2%80%98amar%E2%80%99-raho/"&gt;Con Artist&amp;rsquo;s art of manipulation!&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;I wonder that some day I too will get the Padma Shri for being best blog writer!&lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Really!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;If&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Uff! Yeh Gussa" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/barkha-dutt-ko-gussa-kyon-aata-hai/"&gt;Barkha&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Cash for vote Hide the Tape" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/rajdeep-sardesai-cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape-scandal-%E2%80%98hamam-mein-sab-nange-hain%E2%80%99-of-course/"&gt;Rajdeep&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and this year even; Shekhar Gupta managed to secure one for their time tested and life long &amp;nbsp;&lt;a style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/rajdeep-sardesai-answer-please-who-disrobed-democracy/"&gt;unflinching loyalty&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to Madame Sonia &amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo; Gandhi! So may be then; I should not loose hope and pray for a communal Government at centre to bestow me one, some day. &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Having said this, I once again salute the Brave hearts and wish you all &amp;lsquo;Happy Republic Day&amp;rsquo;. As each one of us are proud parts of this Republic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Regards,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>2009: Time to make a ‘Choice’</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T04:52:55Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T05:07:32Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/100042.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=277" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;By happenstance we are lucky to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/137775/%E2%80%98Shocked%E2%80%99-PM-forgets-his-terrible-record.html"&gt;have survived 2008.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;PHEW!&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;What a year that had been&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/jaipur-serial-blasts-indians-get-angry-now/"&gt;bombs raining all most&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;everywhere! Not that we had any good year since 2004, but certainly 2008 was worst. I pay my humble tributes to all those fellow Indians who lost their lives at the altar of&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/a-b-c-of-the-great-%E2%80%98indian-secular-conspiracy%E2%80%99/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Secularism&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;being practiced by our most&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/the-headmaster-of-a-school-for-scandal-by-mjakbar/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Effete&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/the-headmaster-of-a-school-for-scandal-by-mjakbar/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;Prime&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Minister&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Minion in the service of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/madame-sonia-gandhi-the-true-balidaan-devi/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Her Majesty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/madame-sonia-gandhi-the-true-balidaan-devi/"&gt;&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;government.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I welcome you to year 2009 (This being my first post in 2009 after &amp;lsquo;Winter Hibernation&amp;rsquo;) with a pray in mind that at least this year we take a resolve to make&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;a safe place to live in.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;This year, as it is an election year as well, is a year to make a choice.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;A &amp;lsquo;Choice&amp;rsquo; only we can make. We pride in self as the &amp;lsquo;largest and vibrant democracy&amp;rsquo;- which we indeed are &amp;ndash; the year is here to make that choice. A &amp;lsquo;Choice&amp;rsquo; between a &amp;lsquo;Strong, Stable and Prosperous&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;or yet again put on an &amp;lsquo;experiment&amp;rsquo; only because he/she has some genetic order/disorder or the most &amp;lsquo;pliable one&amp;rsquo; as we&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/singh-is-king-andheri-nagari-chaupat-raja/"&gt;saw in Him&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;and then again in case of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/she-is-not-my-president/"&gt;HER&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Year 2009 is the year to make this choice&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.lkadvani.in/"&gt;between National Interest&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;or&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/crowned-prince-and-forgotten-soldier/"&gt;Dynasty Interest&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;We are at the threshold of &amp;lsquo;Future&amp;rsquo;. Future is laid on some solid foundation. Foundation is not what can be experimented with. Or can it be? Answer is emphatically &amp;lsquo;No&amp;rsquo;. As I said the year is to make a choice. I urge all fellow Prudent Indians to act &amp;lsquo;Prudently&amp;rsquo; and make the &amp;lsquo;choice&amp;rsquo; if not for you; make the prudent choice for your/mine/our children.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Regards,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:11547</id>
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    <title>Shri Arun Jaitley on UPA’s new anti terror law.</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T04:48:32Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T04:49:28Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Shri Arun Jaitley of BJP speaking on UPA&amp;rsquo; Govts &amp;lsquo;reluctant and half hearted&amp;rsquo; measure to curb the menace of terrorism made the following concluding statement.&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Sir, we are today paying the political cost of terror. We need an effective anti terror law as terrorism has its adverse effects. It can affect the investment environment in the country; it can divert economic resources from development to fighting terror; it can impact on social cohesion in a civil society and create a sectarian divide. Strong anti terror steps can even alienate a small section of people. Diversion of resources to anti terror steps can also affect our defense preparedness. With all these costs and a challenge to national sovereignty, let us today proclaim finally while we re-visit the anti terror law, an anti terror law is a secular law. It does not recognize religion or caste. It&amp;rsquo;s a law against terrorists and not against a community. Checks have to be imposed to prevent its misuse. Ordinary laws are not enough to deal with terror. But this law is only half a step of a reluctant government. As a Nationalist party we will campaign for the other half but yet support the half measure that you have taken. The only difference being that while we support this measure as a National necessity, the government and its allies appear to be more apologetic in bringing this measure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Courtesy&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Yossarian&lt;/em&gt;, h&lt;a title="Sh. Arun Jaitley in RS on NIA." target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2008/12/18/arun-jaitleys-speech-in-rajya-sabha-on-nia-uapa-bills/"&gt;ere is the full text of speech&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;as made by him in Rajya Sabha during discussion on the NIA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:11408</id>
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    <title>IC 814 Kandahar Seize: The other side of story – What Media and Secularists do not tell?</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T04:44:32Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T06:16:27Z</updated>
    <category term="pakistan"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/340x.jpg?w=340&amp;amp;h=427" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;Whenever there is a debate on &amp;lsquo;Terror&amp;rsquo; and there arises a need for formulating some stringent laws to fight terror, the&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kandahar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;episode is inadvertently dragged in and &amp;nbsp;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK2" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK1" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;unabashedly&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;abused to browbeat the BJP.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Two pointed insinuations are made&amp;hellip;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;1. The BJP gave in to the terrorists demands and released three dreaded terrorists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;And&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;2. Jaswant Singh, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, escorted these terrorists to safety.&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Factually, yet only superficially, both these things are accurate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;But &amp;ldquo;WHY THIS WAS DONE?&amp;rdquo; is what these &amp;lsquo;secularists&amp;rsquo; and Media guys have never revealed till date!&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Skipping the details of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814"&gt;Kandahar Seize&lt;/a&gt;; let me focus on these two points.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;1:&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;BJP surrendered to terrorists and released three dreaded terrorists.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Indeed, it was a shameful surrender. I personally wish that the Government of the Day had shown courage and not surrendered to the terrorist&amp;rsquo;s demands. But then; if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Three terrorists were swapped for the lives of 200 Indians and foreigners&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;. Contrast this with the release of&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;five dreaded terrorists exchanged for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_kidnapping_of_Rubaiya_Sayeed"&gt;Rubaiya Saeed&amp;rsquo;s release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_kidnapping_of_Rubaiya_Sayeed"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;The government of the late V P Singh accepted their demands and freed the jailed terrorists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Neither the Secularists nor the Media ever make a mention of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_kidnapping_of_Rubaiya_Sayeed"&gt;this incident&lt;/a&gt;! But both &amp;lsquo;Secularist&amp;rsquo; and pliant MSM never tire of telling us persistently about the &amp;lsquo;abject&amp;rsquo; surrender by the NDA government at Kandhaar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;NOW ISN&amp;rsquo;T THAT VERY CONVENIENT for both &amp;lsquo;Secularists&amp;rsquo; and Se-Soc MSM to evade answering&amp;hellip;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;How could one&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_kidnapping_of_Rubaiya_Sayeed"&gt;Rubiya Saeed &amp;rsquo;s life&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;become more important than 200 lives of Indians and foreigners?&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/21.jpg?w=320&amp;amp;h=280" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Was that just because she happens to be the daughter of near separatist-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Mufti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Md.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Saeed &amp;ndash; the Union Home Minister in the late VP SINGH&amp;rsquo;s Govt?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Any Answer? No, both MSM and their Secular Political Masters are conveniently silent on this matter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;200 Indians and foreigners v/s &amp;lsquo;one&amp;rsquo; kidnapped daughter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;- (a kidnap that is alleged to have been stage-managed) - of &amp;lsquo;Secular&amp;rsquo; Union Home Minister under the aegis of the Secular Most&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishwanath_Pratap%20Singh"&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(now dead and forgotten Jai Chand of modern times).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I do not notice any outrage on the release of these five terrorists in exchange to Rubiya; whereas all hell breaks loose whenever&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;IC 814&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;is mentioned! Mind you, release of these&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;five terrorists&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;started the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;endless avalanche of terror&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;not only in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kashmir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;but all over&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Any person with any IQ&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(surely not including secularists, media, baba, babes, men and women of Congress)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;would concede that in the absence of any&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;No Negotiation with Terrorists&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;policy, releasing these terrorists was imperative.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;And why was it &amp;lsquo;imperative&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;A relentless hype created by the media to put pressure on the Govt of the Day. At &amp;lsquo;whose&amp;rsquo; behest&amp;hellip;is something that needs to be investigated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Media kept the pressure on the Govt and images of infuriated and agitated relatives of the hostages were beamed 24X7 on news channels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Media invited experts of all hues and shades &amp;ndash; I particularly remember watching a psychiatrist describing graphically the trauma these &amp;lsquo;hostages&amp;rsquo; might be going through at that point of time. Now what effect that would have had on the psyche of the near and dear ones of these hostages is simply unimaginable &amp;ndash; this was something that neither my late mother and I could bear. I do not hold the relatives of these hostages guilty; I often wonder whether I would have reacted any differently had my kith or kin been there? Frankly, I do not know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Did MSM wait and ponder then?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I dare the MSM to release the tapes of those days when they&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;petrified the already nervous and anxious relatives of the captives and hyped up the gruesome incident&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;beyond all limits!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Will the Congress admit that they did send their goons&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;guised&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;as relatives of the hostages and vandalized the press conference of Atal Ji &amp;ndash; then Prime Minister of India?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Will the apostle of &amp;lsquo;secularism&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/barkha-dutt-ko-gussa-kyon-aata-hai/"&gt;Barkha Dutt&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;and champion of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/madame-sonia-gandhi-the-true-balidaan-devi/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Saint Hood&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/rajdeep-sardesai-cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape-scandal-%E2%80%98hamam-mein-sab-nange-hain%E2%80%99-of-course/"&gt;Rajdeep Sardesai&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;ever release those tapes showing what really transpired? No, both&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Padma Shri&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;awardees have been rewarded well in advance. They will never ever do anything that would question their commitment to&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;secularism&amp;rsquo;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;After all,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Namak Halali&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;by itself is a highly valued virtue in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Service of Her Majesty&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;. HUH!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;We have just recently witnessed the l&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/an-admiral-and-the-barkha-dutt/"&gt;egendry wisdom of Sec &amp;ndash;Soc MSM on display during the recent Mumbai Massacre.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;WHATEVER IT TAKES:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/rajdeep-sardesai-answer-please-who-disrobed-democracy/"&gt;To rake in mullah; TRPs, Padma Shris&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Well, things were not much different in December 1999 either. The only difference was that, many of these &amp;lsquo;eminent&amp;rsquo; journalists were then part of one &amp;lsquo;Shop&amp;rsquo; named Media House. Now they have their own kiosks and each one is trying to get his &amp;lsquo;share of loot&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;COMING TO MY SECOND POINT:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Jaswant Singh, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, escorted these terrorists to safety.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Amazing, isn&amp;rsquo;t it, that the BJP led NDA government could be so stupid and na&amp;iuml;ve to send Jaswant Singh to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kandahar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Wait, I am not saying that it was stupid to go to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kandahar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;. It was the most prudent thing for Jaswant to do under the most trying circumstances. I have strong reasons to believe so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;First do keep in mind that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;1.&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;200&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;lives were in the hands of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Islamic Butchers&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;and they had already taken the life of&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Rupin Katya&lt;/strong&gt;l a passenger on that hijacked flight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;2.&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The aircraft was in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kandahar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Talibaan&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Govt (if any) was directly controlled by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Pakistani ISI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;3.&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Talibaan&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;never subscribed to any&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Geneva Convention&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;nor did they ever have any respect for any rule or law. Hence to expect them to behave like a&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Civilized Govt&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rsquo; leave alone&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;sympathetic and cooperative&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;was the most foolish thing to do!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;4.&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Aircraft was surrounded by rocket launcher wielding, Kalashnikovs carrying Talibaan fanatics.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Under the circumstances the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;ABV&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;did the right thing by sending Jaswant Singh &amp;ndash; then Foreign Minister of India, an astute diplomat and a senior man in the Cabinet -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol type="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-top: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 2em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2em; "&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;To safely escort the 200 passengers and crew back home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;To oversee, supervise and if required, take appropriate on the spot decisions, especially when the highjackers and or their master in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Islamabad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kandahar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;could have raised any new demand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;What was the guarantee and who was willing to give - that the Taliban&amp;rsquo;s would have released the hostages or not blown up the plane even after the &amp;lsquo;terrorist&amp;rsquo; were released? Isn&amp;rsquo;t it to Jaswant&amp;rsquo;s credit that nothing of this sort happened and other causalities were averted?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;God forbid if any of the above mentioned had happened, I bet that the Secularists and their cohorts in MSM would have made such a hue and cry that the Govt would have been lynched on the streets of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;. After all just after the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/mayhem-in-mumbai/"&gt;Mumbai Mayhem,&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;the same MSM launched a&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;vicious&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;campaign against all Political Classes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;This was clearly to divert the public ire against UPA and to be spread over all political classes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Secularists and MSM have perfected the art of spreading the canard as gospel truth in the name of &amp;lsquo;secularism&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;But I will be less than honest to say that&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;BJP&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;and their leaders are alone to be blamed for the mess they find themselves in on this issue. What seemed like a prudent decision, with the right intention, at that moment in time, has become an &amp;lsquo;albatross&amp;rsquo; around their neck and their being defensive on the issue is pathetic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I wonder at times what good is their collective political acumen if they cannot put these things into perspective! What amazes me greatly is the fact that what occurs to a layman like me, does not occur to these legal luminaries in BJP!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 4.3pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Finally&amp;hellip;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I am ready to excuse any political party since they are directly responsible /answerable to the Indian public. Good or bad as they are; is decided by the voting public. My grouse is against these so called opinion makers. Their role &amp;ndash; though very crucial in any or for any vibrant democracy &amp;ndash; is assumed / consumed by some self-serving, highly biased, politically motivated and &amp;lsquo;Self Importantly Busy Bodies&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;THIS IS TRULY SAD AND PATHETIC.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:11246</id>
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    <title>A R Antulay: If Not DeshDrohi than what?</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T04:42:18Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T06:18:46Z</updated>
    <category term="media"/>
    <category term="amar singh"/>
    <category term="sonia gandhi"/>
    <category term="devil&amp;apos;s advocate"/>
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    <category term="islam"/>
    <category term="frankenstein"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/arantulay_3249.jpg?w=197&amp;amp;h=250" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Prime Minister,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Sack this Pakistani mole in your cabinet kicking on his ass.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/PoliticsNation/Did_terroists_kill_Karkare/articleshow/3852590.cms"&gt;This non sense by a senior minister happens only in your Cabinet.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;This statement from a senior minister can only be constured as &amp;lsquo;SIMPLY DESH-DROH&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;rsquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;And let me tell you Mr. PM that any one who presides over these&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/07/14/arjunantulay-and-mumbai-blasts/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Creature&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;is as much a DESHDROHI if not more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:10865</id>
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    <title>INDIA TODAY PLEDGES TO FIGHT AGAINST ‘WAR ON TERROR’.</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T04:37:26Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T06:24:39Z</updated>
    <category term="war on terror"/>
    <category term="11/26"/>
    <category term="prudent indian"/>
    <category term="narimaan houe"/>
    <category term="oberoi mumbai"/>
    <category term="islamic terror"/>
    <category term="india"/>
    <category term="taj mahal hotel mumbai"/>
    <category term="india today"/>
    <category term="mumbai"/>
    <category term="mumbai mayhem"/>
    <category term="26/11"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/pledge-now_05.gif?w=500&amp;amp;h=170" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello my fellow Prudent Indians,&lt;h3 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); "&gt;I appreciate Mr. Arun Poorie for initiating&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;issueid=82&amp;amp;id=21791&amp;amp;Itemid=1&amp;amp;sectionid=19"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Pledge to win this war&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h1 style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, serif; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;We can and We WILL&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Win this &amp;lsquo;war&amp;rsquo; which has been&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, serif; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Forced upon us:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Finally and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Decisively.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h3 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I have pledged to fight against this &amp;lsquo;imposed war&amp;rsquo;, have you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); "&gt;If not,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://specials.indiatoday.com/specials/petition_new/pledge.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;then log in here and do it NOW .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/victims-at-cstjpg.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=301" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IF NOT FOR YOU,THEN FOR THE ONE YOU LOVE MOST; AT LEAST&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/gallery-mumbai-terror-att-012.jpg?w=493&amp;amp;h=390" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FOR KIDS LIKE THIS ONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:10725</id>
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    <title>‘An’ Admiral and ‘The’ Barkha Dutt.</title>
    <published>2009-02-20T04:29:43Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T06:26:30Z</updated>
    <category term="indian navy"/>
    <category term="pakistan"/>
    <category term="ndtv 24x7"/>
    <category term="24x7"/>
    <category term="indian tv"/>
    <category term="rajdeep sardesai"/>
    <category term="islamic terrorism"/>
    <category term="26/11"/>
    <category term="media"/>
    <category term="indian news channels"/>
    <category term="kargil war"/>
    <category term="11/26"/>
    <category term="sonia gandhi"/>
    <category term="terrorists"/>
    <category term="admiral suresh mehta"/>
    <category term="vir sanghvi"/>
    <category term="barkha dutt"/>
    <category term="mumbai mayhem"/>
    <category term="tv secularists"/>
    <category term="secularism"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/image7.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Naval Chief Admiral Suresh Mehta has set the tail of Indian Media on fire. Indian Main Stream Media mostly &amp;ndash;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Secular, Social, Liberal and Progressive&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(!) is outraged.&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Admiral Mehta while addressing a press conference on the eve of Navy day passed some scathing remarks on the way media covered the recent Mumbai Mayhem and passed some strictures against the &amp;lsquo;reigning queen&amp;rsquo; of Indian Media:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkha_Dutt"&gt;Ms. Barkha Dutt.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;This is what Admiral Mehta said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;When operations were taking place, the channels were reporting that commandos were being airdropped. The terrorists were in live contact with their masters, who were keeping them informed. Such minute-by-minute coverage can be detrimental to conduct of operations. We are disturbed by such reporting.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=083f8b3a-4b81-476a-9d85-9ac6770d20ac"&gt;[&amp;hellip;] link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The whole world knows the way Media reported. They are themselves to be blamed for the way they covered the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;National Emergency&lt;/strong&gt;. But then it wasn&amp;rsquo;t any thing more than a&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;media event&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;for them&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(sic!)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Admiral Mehta did not spare&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/barkha-dutt-ko-gussa-kyon-aata-hai/"&gt;Ms. Barkha Dutt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and made an observation about her&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;alleged misdemeanor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;during the time of&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kargil war&lt;/strong&gt;. This is what Admiral has been reported saying&amp;hellip;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Singling out a&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;lady journalist&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;from an&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;English news channel&lt;/em&gt;, Mehta, who is also the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;chairman of chiefs of staff committee&lt;/strong&gt;, said irresponsible coverage of the war had compromised the safety of troops and led to the death of three soldiers. He said this&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;particular journalist&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;had cajoled an army colonel to demonstrate the firing of an artillery gun&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(Bofors)&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;to capture a great shot on the camera. He said the colonel was later dismissed from service.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=083f8b3a-4b81-476a-9d85-9ac6770d20ac"&gt;[&amp;hellip;] link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;As for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;alleged misdeme&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;nor&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;of Ms. Barkha during&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kargil operation&lt;/strong&gt;, you&amp;rsquo;re truly has no way to either confirm or deny. If &amp;nbsp;just as The Admiral Charge Ms. Dutt with, it is a serious issue and need to be investigated. For sure, this is not the first time this charge has been made. And, let me add, coming this from a&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;serving Admiral,&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;this charge is too serious to be dismissed offhand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;at least tend to believe Admiral more for the simple reason, I do not trust Media. Especially, the Sec Soc 24&amp;times;7 channels.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;In any democratic set up&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;media&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;has a role to play and is an integral part of the set up. But few individuals can not arrogate to selves or can proclaim selves,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;as the entire&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;media&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Media is an institution and no individual is above that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Ms. Barkha Dutt, A Rajdeep Sardesai, Some Vir Sanghvi is not entire media.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Equating entire media with all or any of these&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Maharathis&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;reminds me of a Barua saying:&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Indira is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;is Indira.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;What I do not understand is:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Post&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/mayhem-in-mumbai/"&gt;Mumbai Mayhem&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;when&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/shiv-raj-%E2%80%98zombie%E2%80%99-patil-resigns-finally-good-riddance/"&gt;everyone is being questioned,&lt;/a&gt;why should the Media be spared and excluded from questioning/scurtiny for the role it played when the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;operation&amp;nbsp;flushing out terrorists&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;was still on?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Why should the MSM not be held accountable for its omission and commissions? Is MSM above law? Is MSM beyond reapproach?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Reacting strongly to these allegations against the media,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Dr. Prannoy Roy, President, NDTV, told HT: The&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Hindustan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Congress Times.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;What he&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(Admiral)&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;said is completely untrue and malicious. We have asked for a retraction and a public apology as these amounts to defamation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;#39;Lucida Grande&amp;#39;; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Oh Ya Dr. Roy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Go and sue Admiral! How could the Admiral say these things about the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Star of Indian&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;nauseating&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;News Channels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;!&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Right to abuse, slanders, cast apprehensions, destroy reputations, labeling and defaming people and parties etc. is the sole prerogative of Indian main stream media!&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Huh!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Another Star journalist of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Congress stable;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Vir Sanghavi of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/chamcha-in-chiefpankaj-vohara/"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/chamcha-in-chiefpankaj-vohara/"&gt;Hindustan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/chamcha-in-chiefpankaj-vohara/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Congress Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/an-admiral-and-the-barkha-dutt/9015b3fd416cMumbaiunderattack_Special&amp;amp;&amp;amp;Headline=Shameful+naval-gazers"&gt;has this to say&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;about theServing &amp;nbsp;Admiral:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;If this is the level of the navy&amp;rsquo;s leadership, are we surprised that the terrorists came in so easily? The Navy Chief should ponder over the damage his foolish press conference has done his service. The Navy deserves better.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Vir Sanghavi&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/an-admiral-and-the-barkha-dutt/9015b3fd416cMumbaiunderattack_Special&amp;amp;&amp;amp;Headline=Shameful+naval-gazers"&gt;shamelessly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/an-admiral-and-the-barkha-dutt/9015b3fd416cMumbaiunderattack_Special&amp;amp;&amp;amp;Headline=Shameful+naval-gazers"&gt;&amp;nbsp;hesitates not for a second&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to pass on judgment on the&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Naval Chief of India&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;-who arose to become what he is,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;not because of his gene pool or the family he belongs too&lt;/em&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;but for his professional skills, commitment and service to nation. Where is the restraint and sagacity? Shame on you Vir!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;At any given point of time, I reteriate, would believe the Admiral &amp;nbsp;than a mere&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;sycophant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/mumbai-mayhem-aftermath-the-buck-should-stop-at-her/"&gt;Sonia&lt;/a&gt;. PERIOD.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Let Vir and his ilk come up with an answer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The three&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;journalists&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;that Sonia gave&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;exclusive&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;interviews to so far after the drama &amp;ndash;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Vir Sanghavi, Barkha Dutt and the Master of all Rajdeep Sardesai&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;ndash; let them tell the world that the questionnaires were not given to Madame Sonia&amp;rsquo;s aides in advance?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Let these three people answer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot; Where was this outrage when&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/rajdeep-sardesai-cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape-scandal-%E2%80%98hamam-mein-sab-nange-hain%E2%80%99-of-course/"&gt;Rajdeep sat over the tapes&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;Where was your &amp;lsquo;morality&amp;rsquo; when a kid Aarushi&amp;rsquo;s death was slandered and made a&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;rsquo;soap opra&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;on prime time 24X7 Channels? Has any of you tendered an apology?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;What the f*** did you do when a school teacher was molested publicly at the behest of another 24X7 channel?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;Where the hell was your outrage when a man was prompted to&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;immolate&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;self in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Patiala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Punjab&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;and some place in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Bihar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;while the cameras captured live and beamed live/ recorded?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;Let these&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Sec Soc&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;journalists tell the nation and release the tapes of period when&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;IC 814&lt;/strong&gt;happened and let the world judge how these guys (MSM) behaved post Godhara too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;Let the nation know&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;for what reasons Barkha and Rajdeep, along with the Secular Jehadi Teesta Setalwad were rewarded with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/rajdeep-sardesai-answer-please-who-disrobed-democracy/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Padmashris&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;by Madame Sonia&amp;rsquo;s Govt.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;What did the Congress rag carry &amp;nbsp;the day of election in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Delhi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;on its front page Nov 2008?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;What kind of survey did&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Vir&amp;rsquo;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;paper carry on front page &amp;lsquo;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Banner News&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;the morning after &amp;nbsp;terrorists struck &amp;nbsp;Mumbai Nov 2008?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;What has been Ms Barkha&amp;rsquo;s channel doing by&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;spreading&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;the blame on all&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;political class&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;for the failure of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/prime-minion-is-shock-proof/"&gt;Madame Sonia and her handpicked Prime Minion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;What did these guys and gals do when&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/hamari-rashtrapatil/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Your President&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;was being selected and imposed upon a Billion strong Nation?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;How much&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;expose&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;you did when most of those witnesses in fodder scam commit &amp;lsquo;mysterious&amp;rsquo; suicides or got killed in &amp;lsquo;accidents&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;Did you guys have the guts to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/niraj-jain-in-baroda.jpg"&gt;publish this photograph and tell what the &amp;lsquo;Hindu Fanatics&amp;rsquo; were protesting about in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/niraj-jain-in-baroda.jpg"&gt;Baroda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/niraj-jain-in-baroda.jpg"&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;. What probity you guys showed when&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/madame-sonia-gandhi-the-true-balidaan-devi/"&gt;Madame&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;friend Mr.&amp;lsquo;Q&amp;rsquo; ran away with the money? What has been the follow up?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;. Explain please why has&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/crowned-prince-and-forgotten-soldier/"&gt;this been not made a news item on any of your 24&amp;times;7 channels or Newspaper?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Any answer?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;No.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Because&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;In Rajdeep&amp;rsquo;s own words - with my&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;communal&amp;rsquo;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;comments in between &amp;ndash; this&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Journalist&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;Mange More&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Hamam Mein Sab Nnange Hain&amp;rdquo;. Bikul Nange.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;Another reason for the problem is the changing self-image of&amp;nbsp;the journalist, and his role in a democratic system. For a long time&amp;nbsp;the journalist&amp;rsquo;s&amp;nbsp;role was seen to be that of an&amp;nbsp;independent observer of events.&amp;nbsp;But observation alone can be rather tedious and not very financially productive either.&amp;nbsp;So, over the years,&amp;nbsp;the journalist&amp;nbsp;has chosen to move from the margins of the fourth estate to being firmly on the centre stage, closer to the first estate&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(read first family Sonia Gandhi&amp;rsquo;).&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ideological corruption&amp;nbsp;is as much a part in this process as anything else.&amp;nbsp;A&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;journalist&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;can get close to&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;political party&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(read Congress),&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;business house&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(read Reliance Anil Ambani Group)&lt;/span&gt;or an individual&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(read Guru Amar Singh)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;in a manner that&amp;nbsp;compromises&amp;nbsp;his&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(read the journalists)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;independence.&amp;nbsp;Having acquired that proximity&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(with Congress and the Maino family)&lt;/span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;the&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;journalist&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;can&amp;nbsp;then use his clout on a larger scale, playing kingmaker in cementing political alliances&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(we saw that you doing Rajdeep as you hid the tapes)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;at the centre or in providing the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(Help winning the political and/or pay masters)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;link between a minister in the Union cabinet&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(?)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and a business house&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(we all know, who and whose behest.)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;in need&amp;nbsp;of a favor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;(Yes, do tell us please: this is to serve the greatest cause of saving&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Hindustan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;from&amp;nbsp;Communal forces?!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI asks these worthies&amp;hellip;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Has Madame Sonia Gandhi given any interview to&amp;nbsp;anyone else with the exception of&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Padmashri&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Barkha Dutt&amp;nbsp;Ben,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Padmashri&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Rajdeep Sardesai&amp;nbsp;Bhai&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;still not decorated&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Vir Sanghvi?&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;If yes, then name him/her please and if NOT then why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;And why only to you&amp;nbsp;&amp;lsquo;three&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Answer if you can.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Or else, Mr/Ms/Mrs/ of Indian Media;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 26pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;shut up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:10257</id>
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    <title>‘A’ Crowned Prince and ‘The’ Forgotten Soldier.</title>
    <published>2009-02-19T15:10:11Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T06:38:21Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/20081130606708021.jpg" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Even before the tears of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan&amp;rsquo;s mother could dry up, Congress general secretary and heir apparent&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Rahul Gandhi&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;who hold&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/please-know-your-future-kingmanmohan/"&gt;License to Rule&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;went partying with his pals at a farmhouse on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Delhi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;rsquo;s outskirts.&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="99%" style="width: 99%; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Mail Today Bureau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;td style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(150, 150, 150); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;New Delhi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(150, 150, 150); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(150, 150, 150); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;December 1, 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Prince partied hard, till 5 in the morning, on Sunday at the &amp;lsquo;sangeet&amp;rsquo; for the forthcoming wedding of Samir Sharma, his childhood friend. They were at a sprawling farmhouse at Radhey Mohan Chowk, the haven of people who lead charmed lives beyond Chhatarpur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/analysis_id2.jpg?w=450&amp;amp;h=270" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Just a day earlier, his sister Priyanka Vadra had caused a flutter by saying the late Indira Gandhi would have &amp;ldquo;made us very proud&amp;rdquo; by the way she would have reacted to the Mumbai terror strikes. Mumbai appeared to be far from her brother&amp;rsquo;s mind as he boogied at the farmhouse with Samir Sharma, US-based furniture designer son of Captain Satish Sharma, the late Rajiv Gandhi&amp;rsquo;s flying partner who nursed the First Family&amp;rsquo;s pocketborough, Rae Bareli, till Sonia Gandhi chose to contest from there in 2004.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Prince seemed to be completely out of sync with the mood of the nation post-26/11. Since Wednesday night, officials have been cancelling parties they were meant to host and even restaurants called off special events.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Saturday night&amp;rsquo;s &amp;lsquo;sangeet&amp;rsquo; was a lavish affair. It was hosted by Leena Musafir, sister of the woman with whom Samir is getting married, and her husband Inder. The party was attended by over 800 guests, including regulars at Page 3 dos. &amp;ldquo;When everyone is cancelling parties or just keeping them low-key, Rahul Gandhi had no business to be celebrating. His action makes us lose faith in future leaders,&amp;rdquo; said Ajay Bahl, a leading corporate lawyer who was trapped in the thick of the action on 26/11 at The Oberoi, Mumbai, but managed to escape with the help of the hotel staff.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Gandhis, including Sonia Gandhi&amp;rsquo;s mother Paola Maino, were present in strength at the 2004 wedding of Samir&amp;rsquo;s sister, Sarika, who is married to actorturned- TV producer Rahul Bhatt. Sarika and Rahul now manage a television production house.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The two families may be very close &amp;mdash; Captain Sharma and his wife, Sterre, were present throughout the very private wedding of Priyanka Gandhi and Robert Vadra &amp;mdash; but the circumstances now are very different.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;As a guest at the &amp;lsquo;sangeet&amp;rsquo; remarked on the condition of anonymity, &amp;ldquo;We were all partying, but none of us is a public person. Rahul Gandhi, however, is. He must be more responsible in his social appearances.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Courtesy:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://mailtoday.in/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(2, 47, 89); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Mail Today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); text-align: center; "&gt;My only urge Listen to this, think and decide.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="ai mere Vatan ke logoon" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.geetganga.org/aye-mere-watan-ke-logon"&gt;ai mere vatan ke logo.n&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;zaraa aa.Nkh me.n bhar lo paanii&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;jo shahiid hue hai.n unakii&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;zaraa yaad karo qurabaanii&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PI.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:10009</id>
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    <title>Mumbai Mayhem Aftermath: The ‘Buck’ Should Stop at ‘Her’.</title>
    <published>2009-02-19T14:42:59Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-19T14:42:59Z</updated>
    <category term="mumbiakar"/>
    <category term="pakistan"/>
    <category term="oberoi mumbai"/>
    <category term="l k advani"/>
    <category term="pratibha patil"/>
    <category term="taj mahal hotel mumbai"/>
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    <category term="bombay"/>
    <category term="isi pakistan"/>
    <category term="communalism"/>
    <category term="rahul gandhi"/>
    <category term="gate way of india"/>
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    <category term="root cause of all eveil"/>
    <category term="congress"/>
    <category term="narrendera modi"/>
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    <category term="dynasty"/>
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    <category term="manmohan singh"/>
    <category term="jihad"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/getimagedllee32.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; line-height: 19px; "&gt;The &amp;lsquo;Buck&amp;rsquo; should stop at&lt;a title="Maa Balidaan Moorti" href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/madame-sonia-gandhi-the-true-balidaan-devi/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lsquo;Her&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for inflicting&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Man&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Shock Proof Primr Minion" href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/prime-minion-is-shock-proof/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;Manmohan Singh&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;as Prime Minion and PP as&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Not My President" href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/she-is-not-my-president/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re President&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Replacing one&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Walking Zombies takes a walk" href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/shiv-raj-%E2%80%98zombie%E2%80%99-patil-resigns-finally-good-riddance/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Zombie&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/FM-Chidambaram-is-the-new-Home-Minister/392437/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; "&gt;another&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is too little too late.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:9778</id>
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    <title>Prime Minion is Shock Proof.</title>
    <published>2009-02-19T14:32:10Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T06:41:32Z</updated>
    <category term="pakistan"/>
    <category term="india at war"/>
    <category term="11/26 mumbai"/>
    <category term="l k advani"/>
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    <category term="taj mahal hotel mumbai"/>
    <category term="upa"/>
    <category term="war on india"/>
    <category term="sonia gandhi"/>
    <category term="mumbai under sieze"/>
    <category term="terror at mumbai"/>
    <category term="pakistan and terror"/>
    <category term="india"/>
    <category term="mumbai attack"/>
    <category term="war on mumbai"/>
    <category term="jihad"/>
    <category term="manmohan singh"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/manmohan-and-taj.jpg" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;A week is a long time in politics&lt;/em&gt;: We Know&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;. Terror is here to stay:&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;We know that as well.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Terror has no religion and affects all, and bullets and bombs do not discriminate any on any basis:&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;We know that Sir.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;These days the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Main Stream Media&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;has added another clich&amp;eacute; to their already rich vocabulary and that is&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;: DO NOT POLITICISE TERROR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. This is being used to browbeat the opposition and sweep the utter failure of these&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="Secular Snake Charmers" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/snake-charmer.jpg"&gt;&amp;lsquo;secular snake charmers&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;at almost all fronts &amp;ndash; under the carpet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://barbarindians.blogspot.com/2008/11/script-changes-little.html"&gt;Barabar Indian&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;has rightly pointed out&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;One can not help wondering after watching the chaotic, erratic, cacophonic coverage of some of our secular media that perhaps the dynastic factor is leaving out some of the able reporters on the street&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;An equally well written and apt post here has exposed this as &amp;ldquo;&lt;a style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://socalcontentions.blogspot.com/2008/05/dont-politicise.html"&gt;Manmohan Singh&amp;rsquo;s politics of politicisation&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; and I agree with this blogger that &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Cynics might wonder how you can&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;politicize something when the person talking about it is the Prime Minister, the highest constitutional authority in town (barring the titular President of course)&amp;ndash;a political post. When the PM says something, it is by default politicized.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="This singh is not king" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/singh-is-king-andheri-nagari-chaupat-raja/"&gt;Political Midgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;like Prime Minion need a battery of these Sec Soc&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/barkha-dutt-ko-gussa-kyon-aata-hai/"&gt;terror apologists&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;masquerading as&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/rajdeep-sardesai-sagarika-ghose-and-their-cahnnel-tunnel-vision-cnn-ibn/"&gt;Journalists&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to keep the opposition under check. Every issue is sought to be &amp;lsquo;obfuscated&amp;rsquo; by the P&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/rajdeep-sardesai-cash-for-votes-and-hide-the-tape-scandal-%E2%80%98hamam-mein-sab-nange-hain%E2%80%99-of-course/"&gt;rime Minion and his gang&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;by mouthing this platitudes like&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;: DO NOT POLITICISE TERROR.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;WTF,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;if the issues like &amp;lsquo;terror&amp;rsquo; which has claimed so many Indians and keep revisiting us every where and any where&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;NEED NOT BE POLITICISED&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;then what is to be politicized? What color Prime Minion wear under his pants? That too &amp;lsquo;if at all&amp;rsquo; he wears one? After all his&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;ASS&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;is well protected, it is people like &amp;nbsp;you and me &amp;ndash; AAM ADAMI -&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;whose ASS is blown UP&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;every time any&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/18-bomb-blast-in-assam-is-it-news/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;city&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;is Bombed!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;As for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Shock&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;this Prime Minion expresses each and every time, here read Kanchan Gupta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/137775/%E2%80%98Shocked%E2%80%99-PM-forgets-his-terrible-record.html"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Shocked&amp;rsquo; PM forgets his terrible record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Kanchan Gupta&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Congress believes, yes it really does, that its leaders alone have the right to &amp;lsquo;politicise&amp;rsquo; national security while others should treat it as a &amp;lsquo;national issue&amp;rsquo; above partisan politics.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;So, the Congress has been prompt in berating the BJP for suggesting that the pusillanimous UPA Government is to blame for the repeated terrorist strikes and the attendant death, destruction and devastation across the country. The 60-hour siege of Mumbai by&amp;nbsp;fidayeen&amp;nbsp;is the latest instance of India suffering yet another grievous blow at the hands of&amp;nbsp;jihadis&amp;nbsp;for whom slaughtering innocent people is the highest tribute to their faith. But after reprimanding the BJP for criticising the Government and thus &amp;lsquo;politicising&amp;rsquo; terrorism, the Congress has had no compunctions about &amp;lsquo;politicising&amp;rsquo; the grief and misery inflicted by mass murderers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;On Saturday, the Congress issued a full-page advertisement in its favourite newspaper, listing the various terrorist strikes during the NDA years, casually mentioning the&amp;nbsp;fidayeen&amp;nbsp;attacks in Mumbai, saluting the security personnel killed in these incidents, and then preachily declaring that terrorism is a &amp;ldquo;national issue, not a political game&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;. The purpose was to influence people in Delhi hours before they stepped out of their homes to cast their votes in Saturday&amp;rsquo;s Assembly election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The advertisement raises two issues, both related to political morality and ethics, which are alien to the Congress and its amoral and unethical leaders.&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;First, according to this advertisement, there have been&amp;nbsp;no&amp;nbsp;terrorist attacks in India between the audacious strike on the Red Fort on December 22, 2000, and the November 26, 2008 assault on Mumbai. This, as every Indian knows, is a blatant lie.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;I have before me a list of terrorist attacks ever since the present impotent regime headed by an effete Prime Minister took charge of this country&amp;rsquo;s affairs after a scrambled election result helped the Congress to regain power at the Centre in the summer of 2004.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The first attack was on August 16, 2004. The latest was on November 26, 2008. In between we have had terrorists visiting Delhi twice, raiding the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, attacking Sankat Mochan temple in Varanasi, blowing up commuter trains in Mumbai, killing people at an amphitheatre in Hyderabad, blowing up bogies of the Samjhauta Express, and setting off bombs in Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Assam. According to the propagandists of the Congress, none of this has happened!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;The second issue raised by Saturday&amp;rsquo;s advertisement is about the Congress saluting the security personnel who have laid down their lives while fighting terrorists and protecting the nation. If any value is to be attached to the advertisement,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;we must conclude that the Congress is reluctant to salute Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma of Delhi Police who, like Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, was shot dead by terrorists. This is because the Congress wanted to send out, ever so slyly, a message to Muslim voters in Jamia Nagar for whom MC Sharma is not a hero but a villain because he dared raid a terrorist hideout in their locality.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;We must also presume, since there is no evidence to the contrary, that the advertisement was endorsed, if not cleared, by the Prime Minister. This speaks volumes about the integrity quotient of a man whose honesty, as claimed by his admirers, admittedly a rapidly disappearing exotic breed, is beyond reproach. Perhaps the Prime Minister needs to be reminded that only cowards take recourse to lies to cover up their failures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Meanwhile, we had the occasion to hear the Prime Minister address a shaken nation 24 hours after the siege of Mumbai began. In his by now familiar laboured style, he expressed his&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;shock&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;at &amp;ldquo;the dastardly terror attacks. &amp;ldquo;I strongly condemn these acts of senseless violence,&amp;rdquo; he added. So what&amp;rsquo;s new?&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;I share the shock and distress of all those affected by these blasts,&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;the Prime Minister said on October 29, 2005, after the bombings in Delhi on Dhanteras. He was&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;shocked&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;on March 7, 2006, after the Sankat Mochan temple bombing. On July 12, 2006, he did not quite say that he was&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;shocked&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;by the Mumbai commuter train bombings, but he did say, &amp;ldquo;No one can make India kneel&amp;rdquo; and promised that&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;his &amp;ldquo;Government will do whatever is required&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;to deal with terrorism. On February 19, 2007, the Prime Minister was more than&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;shocked&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;by the Samjhauta Express bombings &amp;mdash; he was&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;anguished&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;and promised the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;culprits will be caught&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;. On hearing about the serial bombings in Jaipur on May 13, 2008, the Prime Minister was again&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;shocked&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;and condemned&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;this dastardly attack&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;On July 28, 2008, after visiting Ahmedabad following the serial bombings,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;he took care to mention that he&amp;nbsp;accompanied&amp;nbsp;Ms Sonia Gandhi before expressing &amp;ldquo;solidarity with the people of Gujarat&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;. On September 13, 2008, he&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;condemned the serial blasts in Delhi&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;; a month-and-a-half later, on October 30, 2008, he&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;strongly condemned&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;the Assam bombings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Prime Minister now mocks at the victims of terrorism and seeks to fool the people of this country by declaring, &amp;ldquo;We are not prepared to countenance a situation in which the safety and security of our citizens can be violated with impunity by terrorists&amp;hellip; We will take the strongest possible measures to ensure that there is no repetition of such terrorist attacks.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Having&amp;nbsp;countenanced&amp;nbsp;repeated terrorist attacks, which the Congress now brazenly pretends never took place, and silently witnessed the&amp;nbsp;safety and security of our citizens being violated with impunity by terrorists, the Prime Minister now expects the people to believe that he shall join battle with the merchants of death.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;To prove that he means business, he had his Government, such as it is, to put out the bogus claim that he had summoned the Director-General of Pakistan&amp;rsquo;s Inter-Services Intelligence and the Pakistani Government had meekly conceded his demand. In an interview to Karan Thapar for his television show,&amp;nbsp;Devil&amp;rsquo;s Advocate, Pakistan&amp;rsquo;s President Asif Ali Zardari has rubbished this claim. According to Mr Zardari, the Prime Minister, in a telephonic talk with him on Friday, had requested for sending a &amp;lsquo;director&amp;rsquo; &amp;mdash; a mid-level bureaucrat in the official hierarchy. &amp;ldquo;There was a miscommunication&amp;hellip; We had announced that a director will come from my side&amp;hellip; That is what was requested by the Prime Minister and that is what we agreed,&amp;rdquo; Mr Zardari said.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;That the Prime Minister, after all his bluster, should settle for talks with a director of the Pakistan Government so as to &amp;ldquo;take the strongest possible measures to ensure that there is no repetition of such terrorist acts&amp;rdquo; is a measure of his true intention.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:9661</id>
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    <title>Shiv Raj ‘Zombie’ Patil resigns finally! Good Riddance!</title>
    <published>2009-02-19T14:24:56Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-20T06:36:38Z</updated>
    <category term="sonia gandhi"/>
    <category term="mumbai under sieze"/>
    <category term="india at war"/>
    <category term="11/26 mumbai"/>
    <category term="terror at mumbai"/>
    <category term="l k advani"/>
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    <category term="shiv raj patil"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/walking-zombie.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/138007/Home-Minister-Shivraj-Patil-resigns.html"&gt;Walking &amp;lsquo;Zombie&amp;rsquo; takes the walk. FINALLY!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Shiv Raj&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a title="I asked Who is more Dangerous? Shiv Raj or Afzal Guru? didn&amp;#39;t I?" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/now-delhi-rocks-with-serial-blasts-who-is-more-dangerous-afzal-guru-or-shiv-raj-patil/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Zombie&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a title="I asked Who is more Dangerous? Shiv Raj or Afzal Guru? didn&amp;#39;t I?" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/now-delhi-rocks-with-serial-blasts-who-is-more-dangerous-afzal-guru-or-shiv-raj-patil/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;Patil resigns finally!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt; color: red; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Good Riddance!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;More than Shiv Raj Patil it is the Madame Sonia&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gandhi who is responsible for &amp;lsquo;Inflicting&amp;rsquo; Man Mohan Singh a Prime&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Minister&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Minion ON Billon strong Nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;It is Sonia&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Maino&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gandhi who is to be blamed fo the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;brutal&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;murder of innocent Indians on roads, streets, trains, buses, markets, bazaars, hospitals and now Luxury Hotels too.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Time for this Prime Minion to put in papers and take a long walk. The Nation will not shed a tear for this &amp;lsquo;Snake Charmer&amp;rsquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/snake-charmer.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:prudentindian:9293</id>
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    <title>MAYHEM IN MUMBAI</title>
    <published>2009-02-19T14:17:49Z</published>
    <updated>2009-02-19T14:19:08Z</updated>
    <category term="sonia gandhi"/>
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    <category term="11/26 mumbai"/>
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    <category term="war on mumbai"/>
    <category term="taj mahal hotel mumbai"/>
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    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/wide-mumbai-station-cp-rtxa.jpg" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;It has been close to 20 hours since the Mumbai has been under sieze and this is all&amp;nbsp;&amp;lsquo;This Walking Zombie&amp;rsquo; has to say.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/meowshiv-india-awake.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Before I could reach there, the terrorists who had attacked one of the hospitals, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Cama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Hospital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;, had left and those who attacked the railway station had also left,&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/terrorists-left-before-i-reached-terror-sites-patil/391406/" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http:"&gt;Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Pray tell us,&amp;nbsp;What did the Zombie expect?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Terrorists to have waited for &amp;lsquo;him&amp;rsquo; to arrive - all fully attired in a &amp;lsquo;Bund Gala Suit&amp;rsquo; - there with a &amp;lsquo;bouquet of roses&amp;rsquo; for him!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;How many Times before have &amp;nbsp;you heard the &amp;lsquo;Zombie&amp;rsquo; mumble these very same inanities every time&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;is attacked&amp;hellip; at least &amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo; have lost the count.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/terrorists-left-before-i-reached-terror-sites-patil/391406/"&gt;Patil, who condemned the attack&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;as an act of cowardice, said the country would remain strong even as the terrorists attempt to weaken and create difficulty for the citizens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;While I agree that this is no time to pick faults and point fingers at Individuals, yet those who are at the helms of affairs should be held accountable. They can not - &amp;nbsp;just can not get away with&amp;nbsp;inanities&amp;nbsp;alone.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Let me be clear.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;PI.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Reproducing the statement of Shri L.K Advani.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 50px; background-image: url(http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/blockquote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; "&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Statement by Shri L.K. Advani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Leader of the Opposition (Lok Sabha)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;New Delhi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;27 November 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;-&amp;nbsp; The terrorist attack on Mumbai is an audacious challenge to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;rsquo;s Nation State.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;-&amp;nbsp; While maintaining calm and unity, we must all resolve to break the back of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;rsquo;s enemies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;I am traumatized by the events in Mumbai since last night. Clearly, the terrorists have declared a full-scale war on&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;and sought to sever the country&amp;rsquo;s economic nerve with their meticulously planned carnage across the metropolis. The magnitude of their sinister design and determination is evident from the fact that they are yet to be fully overpowered. They are still holding people hostage in some leading hotels and private houses more than 12 hours after starting the onslaught on innocent people in various parts of the city.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;No other city in our country has borne the brunt of terrorism so repeatedly and in so deadly a fashion as Mumbai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;In earlier terrorist acts in Mumbai as well as in other places in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;India&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;, outside Jammu &amp;amp; Kashmir, the attacks have been mostly in the form of bomb blasts by anonymous persons. For the first time, last night, terrorists have also resorted to indiscriminate firing at a crowded railway station, hospital, luxury hotels, cinema halls, and residential buildings. Also, for the first time, the fidayeen attackers have held foreigners as hostages. As many as 100 persons have been killed in this mayhem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Last night&amp;rsquo;s terrorist attack using grenades, other explosives and AK47 rifles is in a very significant way a continuation of the first episode of serial bomb blasts in Mumbai on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;12 March 1993&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;It appears&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;26 November 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a continuation of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;13 March 1993&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;In the context of what has happened last night in Mumbai, there is no doubt that both the UPA Government at the Centre and the CongressNCP coalition Government in Maharashtra have a lot to answer for. However, I shall not comment on this aspect now as today is not the occasion to do so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Right now,&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;the need of the hour is for the people of Mumbai,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Maharashtra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the entire country to stay united and calm. Maintenance of peace, tranquility, communal harmony and patriotic unity must be our highest priority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;I spoke to the Prime Minister last night to express my concern as soon as I heard the news. Today morning he called me to suggest that both of us should travel together to Mumbai to examine the situation, express solidarity with the security forces and also try to provide succour to the victims of the tragedy. I have readily agreed to his proposal. Accordingly, I deferred my plan to leave for Mumbai immediately.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;I pay homage to all the brave policemen and police officers who confronted the terrorists by risking their lives. In particular, I feel sad that&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Hemant Karkare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, chief of the AntiTerrorist Squad (ATS),&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Maharashtra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;, senior police officers&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Ashok Kamte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Vijay Salaskar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;have lost their lives in yesterday&amp;rsquo;s operation. Coming in the wake of the recent martyrdom of police officer&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Mohan Chand Sharma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in an encounter with terrorists in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;New Delhi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;, these acts of dedicated service and sacrifice have earned our security forces the gratitude of the nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>A, B, C of the Great ‘Indian Secular Conspiracy.’</title>
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    <content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://theprudentindian.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/hindu350.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Great&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/hindu-terrorism-the-great-indian-%E2%80%98secular-conspiracy%E2%80%99-in-full-swing/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Indian Secular Conspiracy&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;is at work in the final year of this Hand Picked&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/the-headmaster-of-a-school-for-scandal-by-mjakbar/"&gt;Prime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/the-headmaster-of-a-school-for-scandal-by-mjakbar/"&gt;Minister&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/the-headmaster-of-a-school-for-scandal-by-mjakbar/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Minion&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;of Master Sonia Gandhi. But why? Let us see&amp;hellip;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;May 2004, proved to be the turning point in the modern history of India. The year witnessed the&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/12/13/afzal-saved-indians-shamed/"&gt;most bizarre political drama&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the Nation was dammed to be&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;ruled&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;ruined by the Gang of looters, petty criminals, turncoats, and petty regional chieftains.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Circa 2004&lt;/em&gt;, Post election results, the&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Gang&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;some how cobbled up nos on the mutual&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Give and Take&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;basis &amp;ndash;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;in lay man paralance agreeing honorably to share THE LOOT&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash; under the Leadership of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Reluctant Indian&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and named it as United Progressive Alliance! UPA? Huh!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Let us have a relook at the name&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;United Progressive Alliance&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol type="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-top: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 2em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2em; "&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;United:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oh! Each partner fought against another partner and decidedly against the pivot of Alliance in each and every state: Congress. Not only were 2004 general elections fought against each other but even after the UPA was formed at the centre.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Progressive:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is most ironical and certainly not funny either. Reservations, Communal budgeting, Muslims appeasement, Shame less abuse of Central agencies for favoring Madam&amp;rsquo;s friends be it Mr. Q or arranging clean chits for laloos or framing political opponents&amp;hellip; glorious examples of &amp;lsquo;Progressiveness&amp;rsquo;!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Alliance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Hahahahaha! We all know what type of alliance they make and we witnessed that in Lok Sabha, when&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/manmohan-singh-amar-singh-government-wins-manages-the-trust-of-india/"&gt;political fixers and Dalals&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;had a field day.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Amazing isn&amp;rsquo;t it!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Since the unholy and opportunistic alliance needed a fa&amp;ccedil;ade to explain away the&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;marriage of convince&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Secularism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;had been chosen as the Grand Bonding Glue and each of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Gang Member&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;claimed to be more&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Secular&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;than other, a fierce battle of :&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Who is more Secular than another started among them selves.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Competitive Secularism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, you may so call it. Each of them devised and proposed the more and more outrageous mean to claim&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;More Secular&amp;rsquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;than another. Since&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Secularism&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;for these thugs is to berate any and every thing&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Hindu&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;thus an undeclared code was agreed upon to launch a smear campaign against all the symbols of Hinduism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;This government of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Sonia Gandhi&amp;rsquo;s Prime Minion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;took extra pain to be seen as more &amp;rsquo;secular&amp;rsquo; among the secularists that it went in overdrive, which would appease the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Secular Votes&amp;rsquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This would still have been bearable to an extent but in their zeal to be more&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Secular&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;than the other&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;secular&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;they unleashed series of attempts to heap humiliation on Hindus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Things got so worse that they dared to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/ram-sethu-%E2%80%98secular%E2%80%99-politics-of-the-%E2%80%98worst%E2%80%99-kind/"&gt;challenge the historicity of Lord Rama&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;too!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;But then, Jihadi groups spoiled the party for&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/09/09/secularism-the-biggest-threat-to-india-admitted/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;secularists&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/09/09/secularism-the-biggest-threat-to-india-admitted/"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;These Jehadis kept doing their religious duty by killing the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kafirs&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;in city after city after city. Trains, Bus, Markets, Temples, Streets, Auditoriums where ever they could find some&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Kafirs&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;they blew them up. Since the Govt. even if for a name sake &amp;ndash;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;is said to be running the state affairs&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;ndash; terrorists were caught and invariably they turned out to Muslim sounding names.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;This made these &amp;lsquo;Secular Fundamentalists&amp;rsquo; squirm. They wondered: what to do as their&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;secularism&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;becomes questionable in the eyes of &amp;lsquo;secular voters&amp;rsquo; if they catch only Jehadi! Not that they wanted to catch Jehadis but as the each terrorist turned out to be Jehadi alone, they were embarrassed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Supreme Court&amp;rsquo;s order and subsequent quashing of plea for Afzal&amp;rsquo;s hanging was another&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;albatross&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;around their neck. Being most Secularists they were in a strange dilemma: To hang Afzal and forfeit their claim of being &amp;lsquo;Secualr&amp;rsquo; or to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2006/12/13/afzal-saved-indians-shamed/"&gt;treat him as son in law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;: so they were blamed on being soft on terror.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Then happened:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/inspector-m-c-sharma-%E2%80%98false-bravado%E2%80%99-at-nations-cost/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Batala House&amp;rsquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;encounter&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/inspector-m-c-sharma-%E2%80%98false-bravado%E2%80%99-at-nations-cost/"&gt;All hell broke loose.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Secularists were out on prowl claming the encounter was fake and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/islamists-set-the-rules/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Secular Vote Holders&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash; exploiting the time as nation entered in election mode &amp;ndash; went for overdrive to make the Govt look visibly uncomfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Sec Soc media all this while kept the ante up on the &amp;lsquo;secular brigade&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;First the MSM themselves coined the term of&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Islamic Terrorism&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;and kept TV screens ablaze with&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;We The peoples&amp;rsquo;, Big Fights, Face the Nations&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;etc,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;I am saying this as I have not come across any statement made by any responsible leader from the so called&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Communal Party&amp;rsquo;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;who equated all Muslims with terror.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Even you&amp;rsquo;re truly always maintained that&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;terrorists apprehended had/have Muslim sounding names&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;. Yet the Media kept harping on Islamic terror and each time any terrorist was caught immediately&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/sagarika-ghosh-bloody-mary-or-bloody-idiot/"&gt;Sec Soc Media&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;would make it as: a Muslim community is being targeted in the name of fighting terror. Facts, Logic, Reasoning or even the simple National Interest were sacrificed at the altars of this&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;perverse secularism&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Thus a Hindu Terror face was needed as a counter to the Jihadi terror.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Since the so called &amp;lsquo;Hindu Terrorism&amp;rsquo; is/was non existent and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;secularists&lt;/em&gt;were so desperate&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/hindu-terrorism-the-great-indian-%E2%80%98secular-conspiracy%E2%80%99-in-full-swing/"&gt;they invented one.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;If only the Prime Minion and his Master could lay hand on some&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Saffron Clad Sadhu or Sadhwi,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;implicate in some terror conspiracy, thus all their problems would be solved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;How and Why, I say so?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;How nice it would be to counter&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/jaipur-serial-blasts-indians-get-angry-now/"&gt;Nationalist&amp;rsquo;s demand to purge the ever rising Jihadi Terror&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;would be scuttled and Hindu Terror would be thrown back at their faces should they get a Hindu Terrorist!&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;How convenient a tool in the hands of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;secular fundamentalists&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;to beat the Nationalists labeled as&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Communal forces&amp;rsquo;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;by repeatedly propagating the false hood of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;saffron terror&amp;rsquo;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;or Hindu Terror!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Unfortunately Sahdhwi&amp;rsquo;s arrest&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;became a rallying point of all&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;secularists&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and immediately she was branded as the face of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Saffron Terror or Hindu Terror&amp;rsquo;&lt;/span&gt;. This is precisely what they were so desperately looking for. How could the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Secular Gang&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;miss this opportunity to paint the Hindus in black!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Thus started an elaborate plan to raise a bogey of Hindu Terror and to provide the Jihadis some respite so they could first vote for the &amp;lsquo;Secularists&amp;rsquo; and get some breathing time to regroup and get back to business of killing innocent Indians.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Selective leaks to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/rajdeep-sardesai-answer-please-who-disrobed-democracy/"&gt;pliant and ever obliging Sec Soc media&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;created Hindu Terror as a moral/social/political equivalence to the Jehadi Terror. SEC SOC Media willingly lapped this up with both hands and in an election year a Gobbles campaign to malign the entire Hindu is unleashed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Nation has been forced to forget that under this govt thousands of innocent Indians including children and women lost their lives and limbs while the Prime Minion was being hailed as&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://theprudentindian.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/singh-is-king-andheri-nagari-chaupat-raja/"&gt;&amp;lsquo;Singh is King&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and his Gang keep trumpeting their&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Secular Bigul&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;from ever available ramparts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Nothing is sacrosanct now. No matter if all this is doing incalculable damage to the Morale of Armed Forces. No matter if the Communal Gulf is widened more by every passing day. No Matter if the Jihadi sponsoring not so friendly neighbors are emboldened. No matter if the enemies of nation are in splits and are having gala time to watch all this unfolding. Not even the National security and Integrity matter any more for these &amp;lsquo;Secular Limpets&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;What a sorry pass our great Nation has come to! Sigh&amp;hellip;!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;And this entire elaborate charade the &amp;lsquo;Great Indian Secular Conspiracy&amp;rsquo; is to gain few more fistfuls&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Secular Votes&amp;rsquo;&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Yossarin&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;my friend has unmasked some interesting details in his exhaustive studies and posted here at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; " href="http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/"&gt;offstumped&lt;/a&gt;. A look at his findings and reasoning are eye opening ones and reaffirms my saying the there is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;lsquo;Great Indian Secular Conspiracy&amp;rsquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;going on currently and is detrimental to the very existence of Bharat and Bhartiyita.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;High time we all Indians realize this and if we have even an iota of love for the great Nation our Bharat is, act prudently and the only way we can do that is: Vote out this bunch of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 